Synopsis
Boston psychiatrist, Diandra Warren, fears that her life and that of her son may be in danger when one of her patients reveals that she has been abused by a Irish Mafia thug. Warren recruits the investigative team of Patrick Kenzie and Angie Genarro, who grew up with the Mafia heavy, to protect her and her son. Meanwhile, a woman is found dead and crucified in a slaying eerily similar to one that occurred some 20 years ago.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-07-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 6.5 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from the vengeance of the Irish mob. But something even more frightening is lurking in the shadows. Death himself ears down on them now'reaching out with cold, bloodstained fingers from twenty years in the past to shake their world with a spree of violent, horrific murders that bear an unmistakable signature: that of a long-imprisoned psychopath . . . Dennis Lehane has earned his reputation as the boldest new voice in detective fiction with stunning, explosive novels featuring Kenzie and Gennaro, private investigators who come from a hard place'the rough, blue-collar streets of Dorchester'and never left it. Now the darkness that lives in the hearts of the angry and disaffected has reached their doorstep. Suddenly, the truth may be too personal, to costly, too terrible to pursue. Get ready for an unpredictable journey through the mean streets of the city and of the mind, from the most exciting young writer in mystery literature. He came during the warmest, most erratic autumn on record, when the weather seemed to have flipped completely off its usual course, when everything seemed upside down, as if you'd look at a hole in the ground and see stars and constellations floating at the bottom, turn your head to the sky and see dirt and trees hanging suspended. As if he had his fingers on the globe, and he slapped it, and the world--or at least my portion of it--spun.
Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro know about the darkness that dwells in the rough streets of Dorchester--a darkness that has their client, a prominent psychiatrist, running scared from the vengeance of the Irish mob. But it is Death himself who bears down on them now, reaching out with cold, bloodstained fingers from 20 years ago to shake their world with a spree of violent, horrific murders that bear the unmistakable signature of a long-imprisoned psychopath.
Industry Reviews
"...Lehane is one of those brave new detective stylists who is not afraid of fooling around with the genre's traditions....This is his second Kenzie and Gennaro saga, and clearly their unquiet efforts to age with dignity and learn something about love are are a sustaining mark of this series. Combine that attention to the young detectives with taut writing and an insistent focus on the grim intimacies of crime and care that sustain them amid the changes that have come to their old Boston neighborhood, and you have a very winning series indeed."
Washington Post Book World - Paul Skenazy (07/21/1996)
"...he's [Lehane] created a villain who's both surprising and grimly fascinating: The kind of figure one hates but can't stop reading about."
Townshend
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