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| Original Title: | Gone, Baby, Gone |
| ISBN: | 0380730359 (ISBN13: 9780380730353) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Kenzie & Gennaro #4 |
| Characters: | Angie Gennaro, Patrick Kenzie, Bubba Rogowski |
| Setting: | United States of America Boston, Massachusetts(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Barry Award for Best Novel (1999), Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel (1999), Shamus Award Nominee for Best PI Novel (1999), Dilys Award (1999), Deutscher Krimi Preis for 3. Platz International (2001) |
Dennis Lehane
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 412 pages Rating: 4.14 | 32060 Users | 1752 Reviews
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| Title | : | Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro #4) |
| Author | : | Dennis Lehane |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 412 pages |
| Published | : | April 21st 1999 by HarperTorch (first published July 22nd 1998) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Suspense. Mystery Thriller. Detective |
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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.
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Ratings: 4.14 From 32060 Users | 1752 ReviewsEvaluate Epithetical Books Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro #4)
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ Even if MY world is okay, THE world is still a pile of evil shit. (Wrong movie - spot-on quote. Also, doesnt Matt Damon have the most punchable face in all the world? The correct answer is yes. Yes he does.)This was a buddy read with my pal The Jeff, but I cant wait any longer for his slow ass to finish so my review is going up now ; )In all seriousness, words cant express how thankful I am that I buddied up with The Jeff for this*4.5 stars* Love like that? Hell. It seems so pure, it's damn near criminal. Soooo....I've missed my Angie and Patrick, I'm not guna lie. So when I got the empty feelings one usually gets after finishing a fantastic book and not knowing what to read, I started to get an ache that couldn't be filled by anything other than a beautifully flawed and tortured detective and his snarky partner in crime. See, there are only 6 books and I decided to break them up so I didn't lose them all at
Hmmmm...someone liked one of my reviews and I checked out this person's reading list as well as their reviews and heard mention somewhere in there a sentence or two about heroes, one likeable, the other...well, more along the lines of a sociopath. Dennis Lehane, among other authors was mentioned in this respect.As always, my curiosity was piqued, and although I checked out the other named authors I did finally settle on Dennis Lehane. It was a good decision. Perhaps one of the best reading
In Gone, Baby, Gone you really get a taste of darkness and an overdose of evil. I finished the book a couple of weeks ago, but this was a book that actually was so awful to read, the first Lehane book I had to read in phases, not right through because it was sometimes too awful to read. I also waited a while to write the review. Sometimes dwelling in darkness isn't that nice and after Gone, Baby, Gone I just wanted to read easy things and watch fun things on TV.Rating the book was also hard. I
I've determined that pretty much every mystery/suspense/thriller/whatever book I read is going to land at three stars. It takes a lot for these books to break through into the four star range, and I don't think any of them are ever five star caliber. Lehane, Coben, Grisham, most King, Connelly, etc. They're all fine authors, but all of them have a limit to how great they can be, and they all settle for a decent story that is enthralling at times but ultimately forgettable. This story was just
Five stars, and more. A Masterpiece of crime noir, complex and thrilling, with a difficult and courageous ending. As usual with my reviews, please first read the publishers blurb/summary of the book so that I don't have to repeat the basic plot. I am struck by how similar Lehanes writing is to Robert B. Parkers, and yet how different the feeling is. In Lehane, the sense of pain and loss, especially of lost childhood friends, weighs heavily upon Patrick and Angie, and through them, on us. Im
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