And he treats each book in this series as an occasion for wondering what kind of world can produce the depravity that each new plotline describes. Lehane registers a deep affection for the Kenzie-Gennaro team and a passionate involvement in their problems. It's the characters, and the smart, hard-boiled prose., Unlike the usual sequel writer who simply puts old creations through new paces, Mr. The plot of Moonlight Mile-a title taken from the Jagger/Richards song-is mapped out with Hammett-like precision, but as with Hammett (and Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald and Charles Willeford), when Lehane's on his game, it isn't the plot that matters. Lehane is a writer bringing new confidence and an easy prowess to a new chapter in an epic story-the Kenzie-Gennaro saga, For fans of the Boston-based detective couple-a blue-collar Nick and Nora Charles, putting their relationship to the test in the face of thugs and bums, ethical dilemmas, and a balance-challenged checking account-the return is more than welcome.

Lehane has made quantum leaps as a craftsman. Elsewhere, an extended metaphor aches with confusion and loss - not just the core characters' but that of a larger community, perhaps America itself. Lehane's writing, as always, is tight, vivid and brilliantly assured., Throughout, Lehane's writing mixes the streetwise and the lyrical. Moonlight Mile flies at you fast and sinks its hooks into you for keeps. Nobody pokes his nose into the crummy apartments and seedy bars and trash-packed alleys and emotional messes of lower-class life with more observational rigor than Lehane.

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. 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. 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.

' 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.

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane