- Fiction, Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character)
PI Patrick Kenzie is hired to find a four-year-old girl, abducted while the mother was out drinking. The search takes Kenzie through Boston's underworld of drug dealers, kidnapers and pedophiles.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Dennis Lehane
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Lian pu chu ban, Wen hua yi shu chu ban she, William Morrow & Company
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, tur, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9788535905946
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 11 have read it and 19 want to.
- Fiction
- Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character)
- Crimes against
- Children
- Detective and mystery stories
- Mystery
- Kenzie, patrick (fictitious character), fiction
- Gennaro, angela (fictitious character), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Boston (mass.), fiction
“Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.”
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)
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Both contemporary, classical in form, grave.
Angels flight 199986% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, grave.
The Weight of Blood 202286% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, classical in form.
The Girl Who Played with Fire 200986% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, classical in form.
Fractured 165186% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, grave.
Winter Counts 202085% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, classical in form.
Broken 201084% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, earnest.
All the Sinners Bleed 202384% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, contemporary.
Hell Dogs 202287% alikeFilm · Both contemporary, classical in form, grave.
Love/Hate 201086% alikeTelevision · Both contemporary, classical in form, earnest.