- Fiction, Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character), Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character), Private investigators
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel.A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace.
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- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Dennis Lehane
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg., Lian pu chu ban, RBA
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- fin, Chinese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780062224040
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- Fiction
- Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character)
- Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Mystery
- Missing persons
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Kenzie, patrick (fictitious character), fiction
- Gennaro, angela (fictitious character), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Boston (mass.), fiction
- Massachusetts, fiction
“A piece of advice: If you ever follow someone in my neighborhood, don't wear pink.”
Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including *A Drink Before the War*. Four of his novels were adapted into award-wining films of the same names: *Mystic River* (2003), *Shutter Island* (2010), and *Gone Baby Gone* (2007) and *Live by Night* (2016). [*--Wikipedia*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane)
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