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- Mass Market Paperback: 400
pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 6.76 x 4.18
- Publisher: Avon; Reprint
edition (July 1997)
- ISBN: 0380726289
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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.
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 long-dormant erupt, setting off a
chain of violent murders that will stain everything -- including
the truth.
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.
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