Moonlight Mile: A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel - Couverture souple

Lehane, Dennis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061836958 ISBN 13 : 9780061836954

Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Lehane Dennis

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

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)

Présentation de l'éditeur

“[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. 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. 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. 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061836958
• ISBN 13: 9780061836954
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 368