Deze serie volgt het leven van particuliere rechercheurs uit Boston, wiens zaken hen naar de schaduwrijke hoeken van de menselijke natuur en de samenleving leiden. Elk deel biedt spannende plots waarin gerechtigheid botst met persoonlijke demonen en morele dilemma's. De protagonisten navigeren door gevaarlijke situaties die hun grenzen en hun relatie op de proef stellen. Het is meeslepende lectuur voor fans van detectiveromans met diepgaand psychologisch inzicht.
Twee machtige politici bieden de privédetectives Patrick Kenzie en Angela Gennaro een aanzienlijk bedrag voor een ogenschijnlijk simpele opdracht: vind de schoonmaakster Jenna Angeline, die spoorloos is verdwenen. De zwarte vrouw wordt beschuldigd van diefstal van vertrouwelijke documenten. Patrick en Angela denken dat het oplossen van de zaak een fluitje van een cent is. Maar algauw beseffen ze dat er meer aan de hand is. De vrouw wilde gerechtigheid - en in de straten van Boston is dat levensgevaarlijk. En als de Ierse maffia begint te jagen op iets wat Patrick in zijn bezit heeft, onstaat er een bloederige oorlog.
Pat Kenzie riceve da una nota psichiatra l'incarico di proteggere il figlio perseguitato da minacce e messaggi anonimi. Sembra un caso di facile soluzione. È l'inizio di un incubo. Una serie di terrificanti omicidi, apparentemente senza legame, lo riporta di prepotenza nel passato, agli anni dell'adolescenza, vissuti nel quartiere degradato di Dorchester a Boston. Le vittime, su cui l'assassino ha infierito orribilmente, crocifiggendole e mutilandole, sono tutte persone che Pat Kenzie ha conosciuto. Nel corso di una frenetica caccia all'uomo, condotta anche con l'aiuto di Angie Gennaro e del fedele Bubba Rogowski, Pat si rende conto che il prossimo bersaglio potrebbe essere lui...
Trevor Stone, een miljardair die op sterven ligt, huurt de privédetectives Patrick Kenzie en Angela Gennaro in om zijn spoorloos verdwenen dochter, Desiree, te vinden. Maar niets is wat het lijkt terwijl het speurdersduo een spoor volgt van halve waarheden en corruptie, op zoek naar een vrouw die zowel een zondares als een heilige kan zijn. Desiree, een vrouw in de greep van verdriet, óf een manipulatieve intrigante die precies weet wat ze wil. Deze zaak leidt Kenzie en Gennaro naar het broeierige Florida, waar iemand in vertrouwen nemen de dood kan betekenen en waar iedere misstap de laatste kan zijn.
Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed on a warm, summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous, drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or dead children they may be too far over the edge to come back. Despite enormous public attention, rabid news coverage, and dogged police work, the investigation repeatedly hits a brick wall. Led into a world of drug dealers, child molesters, and merciless executioners, Patrick and Angie are soon forced to face not only the horrors adults can perpetrate on innocents but also their own conflicted feelings about what is best, and worst, when it comes to raising children. And as the Indian summer fades and the autumn chill deepens, Amanda McCready stays gone, banished so completely that she seems never to have existed. Then another child disappears. . . . Dennis Lehane takes you into a world of triple crosses, elaborate lies, and shrouded motives, where the villains may be more moral than the victims, the missing should possibly stay missing, and those who go looking for them may not come back alive. Settle in and turn off the phone. From its haunting opening to its shocking climax, Gone, Baby, Gone is certain to be one of the most thrilling, talked-about suspense novels you read this year.
Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But despite these problems, IPrayers for Rain/I brings them together again to close down a predator whose Imodus operandi/I seems to put him beyond the law. This killer's insidious murder weapon is within his victims' minds: no smoking gun, no bloody knife, just merciless manipulation until despair drives his targets to kill themselves. As Patrick and Angie attempt to identify and save his next victim, this sinister force turns on them and thus begins a dangerous battle of wits: a tormenting, life-threatening game of psychological warfare in which simple survival seems a mixed blessing - because not even the winner will emerge unscathed.
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find her—only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and broken home. Twelve years later, Amanda, now sixteen, is gone again. The disappearance of little Amanda was the case that troubled Kenzie and Gennaro more than any other. Still haunted by their consciences, they must now revisit the nightmare that once tore them apart—following the trail of a lost teenager into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, and Russian gangsters, right up to the doorstep of a dangerously unstable crime boss and his demented wife. Once again Patrick and Angie will be putting everything that matters to them on the line in pursuit of the answer to the burning question: Is it possible to do the right thing and still be dead wrong?
Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand , a terrifying tale of redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate. But an evil for which even they are unprepared is about to strike, as secrets that have long lain dormant erupt, setting off a chain of violent murders that will stain everything – including the truth. With razor-sharp dialogue and penetrating prose, Darkness, Take My Hand is another superior crime novel from the author of Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone; and Shutter Island .
