Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

 

“[Lehane has] emerged from the whodunit ghetto as a broader and more substantial talent. . . .When it comes to keeping readers exactly where he wants them, Mr. Lehane offers a bravura demonstration of how it’s done.”

—New York Times

     Moonlight Mile is the first Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro suspense novel in more than a decade from the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane. An explosive tale of vengeance and redemption—the brilliant sequel to Gone, Baby, Gone—Moonlight Mile returns Lehane’s unforgettable and deeply human detective duo to the mean streets of blue collar Boston to investigate the second disappearance of Amanda McCready, now sixteen years old. After his remarkable success with Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day, the celebrated author whom the Washington Post praises as, “one of those brave new detective stylists who is not afraid of fooling around with the genre’s traditions,” returns to his roots—and the result, as always, is electrifying.

Book Description

     Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane delivers an explosive tale of integrity and vengeance—heralding the long-awaited return of private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl—only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home.

Now Amanda is sixteen—and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. Yet Amanda's aunt is once more knocking on Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, clever young woman—a woman who hasn't been seen in weeks.

Haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most. Their search leads them into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, a mentally unstable crime boss and his equally demented wife, a priceless, thousand-year-old cross, and a happily homicidal Russian gangster. It's a world in which motives and allegiances constantly shift and mistakes are fatal.

In their desperate fight to confront the past and find Amanda McCready, Kenzie and Gennaro will be forced to question if it's possible to do the wrong thing and still be right or to do the right thing and still be wrong. As they face an evil that goes beyond broken families and broken dreams, they discover that the sins of yesterday don't always stay buried and the crimes of today could end their lives.

Critical Praise for Moonlight Mile

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“One of the best writers of his generation.”

— Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Lehane’s voice, original, haunting, and straight from the heart, places him among the top ranks of stylists who enrich the modern mystery novel.”

— Publishers Weekly

“The superb detective novels of Dennis Lehane . . . became a kind of lifeline for me.”

— Stephen King, New York Times Book Review

“Lehane’s voice is an original. He turns the hard-boiled detective novel into an elegiac treatise on the corruption of the soul.”

— Michael Connelly

“[A] work of admirable ambition and scope. . . . Lehane is as much like contemporaries George Pelecanos and Richard Price as he is like the bygone Boston-based John P. Marquand, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.”

— Los Angeles Times Book Review on The Given Day

“[Lehane] deserves to be included among the most interesting and accomplished American novelists of any genre or category. . . . A powerful moment in history, and Lehane makes the most of it. . . . Heartfelt and moving.”

— Washington Post Book World

“Stands in the great tradition of the American novel, setting an enthralling personal story against a great sweep of history. The result is epic, romantic, and intelligent.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Superbly written, meticulously researched. . . . Places [Lehane] in the first rank of modern American novelists.”

— Associated Press

“Steeped in history but wearing its research lightly, THE GIVEN DAY is a meaty, rich, old-fashioned and satisfying tale. . . . Lehane’s masterpiece.”

— Seattle Times

“Passionate and powerful. . . . [Lehane] is becoming, book by book, the foremost chronicler of social class in America. . . . Lehane is trying to get his arms around the origins of modern America, the divide between red states and blue states, the great cultural cleaver that splits the country right down the middle . . . [in this] massive, ambitious novel.”

— Chicago Tribune

“Haunting. . . . Heart-pounding suspenseful.”

— People

“Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Masterfully plotted and beautifully written. . . . A fierce and frightening story of crimes of the flesh and the heart.”

— Cincinnati Enquirer

“Taut writing. . . . Lehane is one of those brave new detective stylists who is not afraid of fooling around with the genre’s traditions.”

— Washington Post Book World

“The well-oiled plot mechanics, edge-of-the-knife dialogue, and explosive bursts of violence are polished and primed in this hard-boiled shocker.”

— New York Times Book Review

“Startlingly original. . . . Instantly cinematic. . . . This is a deft, suspenseful thriller that unfolds with increasing urgency until it delivers a visceral shock in its final moments. When it comes to keeping readers exactly where he wants them, Mr. Lehane offers a bravura demonstration of how it’s done.”

— New York Times

“A spellbinding tale. . . . A powerfully lacerating story, by an author who knows every block of the neighborhood and every hair on his character’s heads.”

— Kirkus Reviews

“A powerhouse of a...novel... heart-scorching... penetrating.”

— New York Times Book Review on Mystic River

“Stylish . . . . .It shimmers with great dialogue and a complex view of the world.”

— Newsweek

“The way the story unfolds and wraps itself around your innermost fears makes it a gut-clenching winner. . . . Lehane’s ability to create crystal-clear portraits of humanity and then place them in the darker side of a life is a writer’s true gift.”

— USA Today

“GONE, BABY, GONE is a tough, true, powerful story written by a stunningly good novelist, one of our very best.”

— James Patterson

“Lehane delivers big time.”

— Wall Street Journal on gone bab Wall Street Journal on Gone Baby

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