Kenzie & Gennaro Séries

Cette série suit la vie d'enquêteurs privés basés à Boston, dont les affaires les mènent dans les recoins sombres de la nature humaine et de la société. Chaque volume présente des intrigues palpitantes où la justice se heurte à des démons personnels et à des dilemmes moraux. Les protagonistes naviguent dans des situations dangereuses qui testent leurs limites et leur relation. C'est une lecture captivante pour les amateurs d'histoires de détectives avec une profonde analyse psychologique.

Ordre de lecture recommandé

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Un dernier verre avant la guerre
Mona de Pracontal
368pages
13 heures de lecture
3,8(300)Évaluer
Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents.Finding Jenna, however, is easy compared to staying alive once they've got her. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna's family and rival gang leaders while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of government. A Drink Before the War
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A Drink Before War
Collectif d'auteurs
320pages
12 heures de lecture
4,0(556)Évaluer
A cadre of powerful Massachusetts politicians offers Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro big money for a small job: find the missing cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential Statehouse documents. But there's much more to this crime than anyone realizes. What the woman was really after was justice--and out on the Boston streets, the truth can turn stark and ugly.
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Ténèbres prenez Moi la main
Dennis Lehane
4,1(684)Évaluer
Une nuit, la psychiatre Diandra Warren reçoit un appel anonyme et menaçant qu'elle croit lié à l'une de ses patientes. Quan arrive au courrier une photo de son fils Jason sans aucune mention d'expéditeur, elle prend peur et demande de l'aide à Patrick Kenzie et Angela Gennaro. C'est pour les deux détectives le début d'une affaire bouleversante qui va les confronter à l'inacceptable, jusqu'à l'imprévisible dénouement. La peur, la compassion, la répulsion, l'amour, toutes ces émotions sont remarquablement mises en scène par Dennis Lehane dans un livre qu'on ne lâche pas avant la dernière page et dont les échos résonnent bien après qu'on l'a refermé.
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Sacred
Dennis Lehane
448pages
16 heures de lecture
4,0(17791)Évaluer
When Angela Gennaro and Patrick Kenzie are called in to find a billionaire's missing daughter, they find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into a world of corruption and violence.
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Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane
510pages
18 heures de lecture
4,2(34103)Évaluer
Kenzie and Gennaro have been hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her home without leaving a trace. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation, the police inquiry has so far uncovered nothing. The case is rife with oddities: Amanda's strangely indifferent mother and her dangerous, drug-addled friends; her loving aunt and uncle; and two cops who have found so many abused or dead children they may already be over the edge. As the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone - banished so completely that she seems never to have existed. And when a second child disappears, Kenzie and Gennaro face a local media more interested in sensationalizing the abductions than helping to solve them, a police force seething with lethal secrets, and a faceless power determined to obstruct their efforts. Caught in a deadly tangle of lies and betrayal, they must confront the horror of what the world can inflict on its children in order to unravel a riddle that's anything but child's play.
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Gone Baby Gone
Collectif d'auteurs
448pages
16 heures de lecture
4,1(576)Évaluer
“Powerful and raw, harrowing, and unsentimental.” —Washington Post Book World “Chilling, completely credible….[An] absolutely gripping story.” —Chicago Tribune “Mr. Lehane delivers big time.” —Wall Street Journal In Gone, Baby, Gone, the master of the new noir, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island), vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-class Boston. A gripping, deeply evocative thriller about the devastating secrets surrounding a little girl lost, featuring the popular detective team of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, Gone, Baby, Gone was the basis for the critically acclaimed motion picture directed by Ben Affleck and starring Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman.
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Prayers for rain
Dennis Lehane
4,1(18750)Évaluer
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 despite these problems, IPrayers for Rain/I brings them together again to close down a predator whose Imodus operandi/I seems to put him beyond the law. This killer's insidious murder weapon is within his victims' minds: no smoking gun, no bloody knife, just merciless manipulation until despair drives his targets to kill themselves. As Patrick and Angie attempt to identify and save his next victim, this sinister force turns on them and thus begins a dangerous battle of wits: a tormenting, life-threatening game of psychological warfare in which simple survival seems a mixed blessing - because not even the winner will emerge unscathed.
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Moonlight Mile
Dennis Lehane
379pages
14 heures de lecture
3,9(266)Évaluer
Patrick Kenzie et Angela Gennaro sont devenus des Américains moyens. Ils se sont mariés, ont une petite fille de quatre ans, Gabriella, et les problèmes quotidiens de tous les couples, entre autres des fins de mois difficiles. Patrick est l’employé précaire d’une grosse société de surveillance qui ne l’embauche pas définitivement car il n’est pas assez « lisse » pour son patron. Il est toujours consumé par la colère face aux injustices. C’est peut-être cela, ainsi qu’un sentiment de compassion, qui le pousse à accéder à la demande de Beatrice, la tante d’Amanda McCready. La famille McCready, Patrick aurait bien voulu l’oublier à jamais. Douze ans plus tôt, Angie et lui avaient enquêté sur la disparition de la petite Amanda et avaient découvert que le kidnappeur n’était autre que son oncle qui voulait soustraire l’enfant à l’influence catastrophique de sa mère. Or, selon Beatrice, Amanda a de nouveau disparu.C’est comme si le cours du temps s’était inversé pour Patrick et Angie. Les voilà de nouveau à la recherche d’Amanda. Elle a aujourd’hui 16 ans, elle fait de brillantes études, n’a apparemment pas d’amis aux dires de ses professeurs, sauf une certaine Sophie, adolescente elle-même très perturbée.Malgré ses mauvais pressentiments, Patrick ne se doute pas que son enquête l’amènera à croiser autant de gens en détresse, autant de sociopathes, sans parler de mafieux russes lancés sur la piste d’une croix à la valeur inestimable…
A Drink Before The War ; Darkness, Take My Hand (2 knihy v 1 svazku)
Dennis Lehane
660pages
24 heures de lecture
4,2(1332)Évaluer
Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand , a terrifying tale of redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate. But an evil for which even they are unprepared is about to strike, as secrets that have long lain dormant erupt, setting off a chain of violent murders that will stain everything – including the truth. With razor-sharp dialogue and penetrating prose, Darkness, Take My Hand is another superior crime novel from the author of Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone; and Shutter Island .