Moonlight Mile - Tapa blanda

Unlike the usual sequel writer who simply puts old creations through new paces, Mr. Lehane registers a deep affection for the Kenzie-Gennaro team and a passionate involvement in their problems. 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. . . . So Patrick and Angie follow the bread-crumb trail of clues and suspects, giving Mr. Lehane many occasions to write acid-etched dialogue and show off his fine powers of description. --New York Times

Lehane's new novel MOONLIGHT MILE is yet more proof that the author is as much social historian as mystery writer, and that his true literary forefathers include John Steinbeck as well as Raymond Chandler. . . . He has precisely defined the gradations of class in American life and illustrated the distorting downward push of economic pressures through a fast-paced, heartbreaking story. 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. . . . The plot of MOONLIGHT MILE flies at you fast and sinks its hooks into you for keeps. . . . Lehane's writing, as always, is tight, vivid and brilliantly assured. . . . But the heart of MOONLIGHT MILE, and the aspect of Lehane's work that lifts it cleanly above other crime fiction the way a grappling hook can raise a body from a quarry pond, is his deep, visceral understanding of poverty's effect on the human psyche, of how the constant throb of hunger can disfigure anybody's good nature and grand ambitions. . . . Just as Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath told the story of one Depression, Lehane's MOONILGHT MILE begins to tell the story of another one. The latter is a nifty detective story, yes, but it's also more than that: It's an indictment of the times themselves, and a passionate hunt for the real criminals. --Chicago Tribune

A modern master of suspense revives the series that initially earned him a hard-core following. . . . [Its] wise-cracking dialogue, page-turning plot and protagonists who are all the more likable for their flaws extend the addictive spirit of the series. . . . Welcome back. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find heronly 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 apartfollowing 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?