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Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane is a 1999 Harper publication. I must make a few confessions up front: 1: I saw the movie version of this title a long time ago and it was so good, I’ve always wanted to read the book, because, of course, the book is always better. 2: I haven’t read as many books by this author as I thought. 3: This is my first foray into the Kenzie & Gennaro series. In fact, I didn’t even know this book was a part of a series, until now.I make these confessions with shaking hand...
Posted at Shelf Inflicted I knew this was going to be a very dark story. After reading the very disturbing Darkness, Take My Hand, about a vicious and sadistic serial killer who knew no limits when it came to human depravity, I didn’t imagine it could get much worse. I was wrong.Though Patrick and Angie are tired of the violence and inhumanity that plagued their earlier cases, they agree to accept this latest case of a four-year-old girl who was abducted from her bed. Amanda’s mom, Helene, who i...
I just finished this book- like, literally, turned the final page, put it down, and am now writing. So, it's possible that I'm violating some rule of thumb akin to waiting two hours after you eat before swimming or not going to bed angry. However, there's a sort of queasy discomfort I have after finishing this fourth volume of the Kenzie & Gennaro corpus that might dissolve given enough lag time that I wanted to get down. Lehane has left me with the disquieting malaise of a wicked problem . W...
3-Stars - "I (sort of) Liked It" Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4) by Dennis LehaneAudiobook - 10:41 Hours - Narrated by Jonathan Davis@ 71% shelved as: 'paused-try-again' (possible but unlikely) Despite its 4 and 5-Stars ratings by a number of friends and followed, unfortunately I did get tired of this audiobook. I appreciate that it was a example of "dark" and "noirish" crime novels, but I am not really into "Noir" at all. At first the accents of the narrator, Jonathan Davis, (who sound
And then depression set in….This book wrecked me the first time I read it. It was almost like having post traumatic stress syndrome. I found myself staring blankly at the walls for days after I finished it the first time. I felt like calling my sister and telling her to keep my young niece locked in the house until she was at least 25. I remember meeting a friend for beers shortly after I finished it, and that he asked me what was wrong. When I tried to explain, he was skeptical. “You’re really
5 STARSThis is a brilliant book. I’ve read most of his published work and I’m a huge fan, especially the Kenzie and Gennaro series.Lehane has a gift as a writer – his character development is probably the best in the business. By the end of his novels, you feel like you know the main characters as if they are a part of your family. You genuinely care and – in this case, especially – you will feel things deeply.***POSSIBLE SPOILER, BUT PROBABLY NOT***I’m not going to lie, it’s difficult to digest...
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, doesn’t 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 can’t wait any longer for his slow ass to finish so my review is going up now ; )In all seriousness, words can’t express how thankful I am that I buddied up with The Jeff
When Beatrice McReady approaches PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to help find her missing niece, Amanda, the prospects do not look good. But Patrick and Angie work with the local missing child unit, bringing in their regular cast of colorful associates to lend their able and sometimes bloody hands. There are the usual misdirections, cul-de-sacs and things that just do not make sense. Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie and Michelle Monaghan as Angie Gennaro VERY LARGE(view spoiler)[ Ultimately...
Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing. Kenzie and Angie don't really want to take this case. A missing four year old girl that was taken from her home, while her drugged out mom is supposedly next door at her friend's house watching tv. The mom did not even lock the door. She was in such a hurry that she just left it open. With her child inside. I didn't want to find Amanda McCready. I wanted someone else to.But maybe because I'd become as caught up in t...
four year old Amanda walked out of her house in the middle of night while her mother was at neighbors watching TV, and no one heard about her even after days of search. Everything came to a dead end. Amanda's aunt request Petrik and Angie to look for the child. Patrick and Angie found a big clue about the girl's disappearance but things instead of solving gets messier and scarier. Lehane wrote an exceptional story here about kidnapping, drugs, abuse, and pain. Writing is flawless and gives chill...
“Hello, darkness my old friend…”Having read The Grapes of Wrath earlier this year, I didn’t think another book could top it for sheer despair. Was I ever wrong. It’s as if at the end of the book the Joad’s drove their truck to the local abattoir and let loose on their frustrations.The book centers on an abduction of a four year old and the involvement of Dennis Lehane’s private investigator duo, Kenzie and Gennaro, in the attempt to recover the child. It’s a journey that takes the reader straigh...
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 publisher’s blurb/summary of the book so that I don't have to repeat the basic plot. I am struck by how similar Lehane’s writing is to Robert B. Parker’s, 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. I’m...
“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.” - Inferno, DanteThese books crawl under my skin. I always feel brave and strong while reading them because I seem to stomach everything but oh, look at how dumb you are, Anna. They linger in me. My nightmares say it all. More than the what or the who or the how, the emotion flourishes deeper, digging into me and breaking my defenses. These books haunt me - I can't find another word rea
Terrific dialog. Excellent book. Saw the movie back when and enjoyed. Recommend reading.
Mystery, Crime & Thriller - Sept. 2017 Group Read IMDb - credit to Dennis Lehaane for movie Youtube - Miramax Movie Trailer (2007) Aunt Beatrice & Uncle Lionel hire Patrick Kenzie & Angie Gennaro to find their niece Amanda(4). They say Helene(Amanda's mom) leaves her alone almost every night - "Gone, Baby, Gone". Lt.Jack Doyle says his Boston Police detectives are enough help.Patrick/Angie & Det.Remy begin search. Lionel tells them he heard Helene & "Skinny" Ray talk about a N
This I found to be a surprisingly good read. It’s rare that a suspense thriller actually evokes an emotional response from me.
When a little girl goes missing and her mother's brother and sister-in-law hire them to find her, Patrick and Angela reluctantly accept. Their investigation drags them through a labyrinth of lies, one they will not emerge from unscathed...Sweet zombie Jesus this is some good shit! I think Lehane might be the newest member of my crime fiction Holy Trinity with Lawrence Block and Richard Stark. Here's how it all went down.After the events of Sacred, the previous book in the series, Patrick and Ang...
*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 o...
Patrick and Angie have led rough careers as private investigators and after the events in Sacred, they’ve decided to pull back a little. When we catch up with them in Gone Baby Gone, they’ve all but sworn off cases that could lead to violence, death and destruction. Unfortunately for them, when young Amanda McCready goes missing, Amanda’s grieving Aunt and Uncle are persistent in their requests for the detectives’ help.Patrick and Angie aren’t sure they’ll be able to offer much up in the way of
“When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children; 'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.'” This is by far the best installment in Dennis Lehane's great series following inner city Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro (with Darkness, Take My Hand being a close second). And the VERY BEST detective novel I've read so far. I