A Drink Before The War
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
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.
Kenzie & GennaroSéries
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.
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A Drink Before War
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
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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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
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
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
- 452pages
- 16 heures de lecture
The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything—their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives—to find a little girl-lost.
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Gone Baby Gone
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
“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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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
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find her—only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and broken home. Twelve years later, Amanda, now sixteen, is gone again. The disappearance of little Amanda was the case that troubled Kenzie and Gennaro more than any other. Still haunted by their consciences, they must now revisit the nightmare that once tore them apart—following the trail of a lost teenager into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, and Russian gangsters, right up to the doorstep of a dangerously unstable crime boss and his demented wife. Once again Patrick and Angie will be putting everything that matters to them on the line in pursuit of the answer to the burning question: Is it possible to do the right thing and still be dead wrong?
A Drink Before The War ; Darkness, Take My Hand (2 knihy v 1 svazku)
- 660pages
- 24 heures de lecture
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 .
