- Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character), Family violence
Taking on a seemingly simple assignment to pinpoint the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential State House documents, private investigators Patrick Mckenzie and Angela Gennaro uncover a ring of extortions, assassination, and child prostitution.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Dennis Lehane
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Rivages, Kadokawa Shoten, Proszynski
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Polish, Russian, German, English
- ISBN
- 9781846327971
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- Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character)
- Family violence
- Fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Kenzie, patrick (fictitious character), fiction
- Gennaro, angela (fictitious character), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Boston (mass.), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Massachusetts, fiction
“The bar at the Ritz-Carlton looks out on the Public Gardens and requires a tie.”
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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