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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780380726295
ISBN number: 0380726297
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: June 01, 1998
Publishing house: HarperTorch
Release Date: June 01, 1998
Sale Popularity Level: 10297
Studio: HarperTorch
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The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel.
A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all -- and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory where nothing is sacred -- a land of lies and corruption where trusting anyone could get them killed ... where taking any step could be their last.
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Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his very first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Patrick's mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St. Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the sweet and simple beauty described by her father, and even Chandler would have been amazed by the plot twists that Lehane manages to keep coming.
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More twists, turns, and thrills than the best roller coaster
Dennis Lehane always writes a good mystery. Sacred is one of his best. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are pushed to the limit in this exciting page turner. From Boston to Florida they prowl for the truth. Each time they think they have found it, it turns into another dead end. Hired by a very rich man to find his missing daughter, Patrick and Angela are thwarted at every turn to make sense out of this house of mirrors where truth is simply a wisp of smoke in the wind. Finally after much consternation, dead ends, confusion, quick physical violence, lies, and just plan frustration, the dynamic duo finally makes enough headway to finally figure out what the heck is going on. Still the ending is a twist, shaken and not stirred.
Some typical Lehane story violence but germane to the storyline. No gratuitous language or sex.
Heartily recommended. Good solid vacation beach read. Another Dennis Lehane winner.
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The very first Dennis LeHane book I ever read was "Shutter Island" which I absolutely LOVED. What an jolt that story was. I followed it up by reading "Mystic River" which was also very good. I was expecting that same type of story/writing with this one and it just wasn't the same.
I picked this up off a clearance rack for $1 not realizing it was the third in a series. Mr. LeHane does a good job of bringing you up to speed on the characters and I was able to enjoy the book even with skipping the very first two. I enjoyed the settings of Boston and the Sarasota/Bradenton area so that added to the book in my opinion.
This book, while good, did not have the writing quality or the story "punch" that the other two books I read had. It was more along the lines of a James Patterson, quick read that was enjoyable but not outstanding. I still find myself several years later thinking about "Shutter Island" and I am sure this book will be forgotten within days. A really good beach read, but not much else.
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There are 5 books in this series of Dennis Lehane's with the charaters of Angie, Patrick and Bubba, the banter between these characters and the sarcasm of Patrick make this book along with the other four great reading, I had read the other 4 several years ago and could not find the 5th book in regular stores, luckily Amazon.com carried it and I was able to enjoy the characters once again.
The story is very interesting and has a different twist in the end, not what you expect. It is fast reading and I found it hard to put down.
Lehane is a great writer and all of his books have characters that come alive off of the pages of the book, I highly recommend all of his books for avid readers.
Great entertainment.
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Another book by Dennis Lahane - ended up buying all I didn't have so that I can share with a friend of mine. The author takes you right to the Boston area and I stayed there until I finished the entire book.
Bookseller service again was excellent.
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good stuff
you get to escape for a while
patrick and angie are funny and you root for them
hope lehane keeps the series rolling
i love the shakespeare references
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