Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 6.76 x 4.18 Publisher: Avon; Reprint edition (July 1997) ISBN: 0380726289

Book Description

The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in this terrifying tale of darkness and 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 something about cold-blooded retribution. 

Cincinnati Enquirer
"Masterfully plotted and beautifully written . . . A fierce and frightening story of crimes of the flesh and the heart."

People
"Haunting . . . Heart-pounding suspenseful"

Washingto Post Book World
"...Lehane is one of those brave new detective stylists who is not afraid of fooling around with the genre's traditions."

In Darkness, Take My Hand, Dennis Lehane gives readers an authentic view of the Boston suburb of Dorchester, the scene of A Drink Before the War, winner of the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. 

Dorchester, a solid blue-collar town with no shortage of good spots at which to sully up to the bar for a beer, is tarnished by a 20-year string of strangely similar killings. Patrick Kenzie, a local, becomes the improbable hero of this tale when he makes it his business to solve the slayings. 

The characters he encounters in Dorchester, with their distinctive accents and colorful pasts, make this mystery not only thrilling, but wildly entertaining.