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Dennis Lehane
The brilliant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane.
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New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River - an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against…
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Lehane has proven himself to be one of the most versatile and exciting novelists working in America today. He’s back with an epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking…
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"Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment." -- Stephen King
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River--an all-consuming tale…
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When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did…
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Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction, the police have uncovered nothing.
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A study guide for Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
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Now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures, directed by Michael R. Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini
Three childhood friends share unforgettable child hood memories, but their adult lives pull them apart and they lost touch until the daughter of one of them was murdered, and one…
After his success with the iconic series set in Boston and led by the unforgettable detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, lauded by the critics and the public for its dramatic strength…
Each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the city. This impressively diverse collection of mystery stories extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the…
The book of the forthcoming film starring James Gandolfini, Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, from the acclaimed author of Shutter Island and Gone, Baby, Gone
Presents a collection of American mystery stories. This book includes the story Running out of Dog . It also includes the full text of the play Coronado .
Hired to find a six-year-old girl who vanished from her home without a trace a full year before, Boston private eyes Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro find themselves caught up…
Two Boston private eyes with a romance on the skids join forces to track down a stalker who torments his victims with merciless manipulation. When the sinister force turns on…
From New York Times -bestselling author Lehane comes a beautifully written novel of American history, set at the end of the Great War.
A TOXIC MARRIAGE. A WEB OF LIES. WHO CAN YOU TRUST? The stunning new masterpiece from one of the world’s greatest crime writers, Dennis Lehane
When Detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist, they soon find the bodies are piling up around them. And what’s more, all…
New York Times -bestselling author Lehane delivers an explosive tale of vengeance and redemption in this brilliant sequel to Gone, Baby, Gone –heralding the long-awaited return of beloved private investigators…
The first in Lehane’s acclaimed series with Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro is a remarkable debut that is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of…
When wisecracking detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist who believes she may have angered the Boston Irish Mafia, they soon find…
Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter.
Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations. –Gillian Flynn
One of the great diabolical thriller kings. –New York Times
Lehane has built a career…
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U.S Marshall Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule travel to Shutter Islands Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but when a storm strands them there, a true…
Lehane’s voice is an original. He turns the hard-boiled detective novel into an elegiac treatise on the corruption of the soul. –Michael Connelly
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The brilliantly dark and atmospheric new masterpiece from one of the most critically-acclaimed and respected crime authors of his generation
Dennis Lehane’s stunning novel Live By Night is now a major film, produced, directed and starring Ben Affleck - due for release in January 2017
TILL DEATH US DO PART… The stunning new masterpiece from one of the world’s greatest crime writers, Dennis Lehane
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Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But…
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston’s Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church…
US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears…
The brilliantly dark new masterpiece from the acclaimed author of Live by Night
A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find a missing cleaning woman who stole some secret…
New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane’s The Drop is a crime story, a love story, and ultimately a journey of faith, set in Boston’s underworld.
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From Lehane, the award-winning author of Mystic River and Shutter Island comes a brilliant collection of five short stories and a play. At turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic…