Dennis Lehane. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-236544-6
This gritty gem from Lehane (Mystic River) has a curious origin. The short story “Animal Rescue,” which appeared in 2009’s Boston Noir, was the basis for the screenplay of the soon-to-be-released film The Drop, to which this is the tie-in. Boston...
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Dennis Lehane. Morrow, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-000487-3
Bestseller Lehane (The Given Day) chronicles the Prohibition-era rise of Joe Coughlin, an Irish-American gangster, in this masterful crime epic. While most hard-working stiffs are earning their wages by day in 1926 Boston, 19-year-old Joe and his...
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Dennis Lehane, read by Jonathan Davis, Harper Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-0-06-201086-5
It's been 11 years since we've seen Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro and, although they're now married with a four-year-old daughter, the years have not been kind. The couple is plagued by money troubles, depression, and...
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Dennis Lehane, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (374p) ISBN 978-0-688-15332-8
Vanished, in this complex and unsettling fourth case for PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro (after Sacred, 1997) is four-year-old Amanda McCready, taken one night from her apartment in Dorchester, a working-class section of Boston, where her...
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Dennis Lehane, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-14381-7
Sharp verbal patter, a noirish kind of good/bad girl and a dying and quite possibly sinister old man all enliven this third stellar effort from the author of the Shamus Award-winning A Drink Before the War and Darkness, Take My Hand. PI Angela...
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Dennis Lehane, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-688-14380-0
In his outstanding second novel, Lehane (whose debut, A Drink Before the War, won a Shamus award) explores horror close to home. Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to help psychiatrist Diandra Warren. Her patient, using the name Moira
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Dennis Lehane, Author HarperTorch $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-72628-8
Two PIs investigate the crucifixion of a former neighbor in a ""haunting"" mystery that received a starred review from PW. (July)
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Dennis Lehane, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-15-100093-7
Lehane's assured debut avoids several common first-mystery flaws before stalling on a less ordinary one. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, two young, smart-mouthed Boston PIs, are hired by a trio of prominent macho politicians to find a State House
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Dennis Lehane, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-688-15333-5
After the shattering consequences of their last case (Gone, Baby, Gone), Lehane's PI partners Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are back, but not together. Estranged from Angie personally and professionally, Patrick works the old Boston neighborhood-
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Dennis Lehane, Morrow, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-183692-3
An old case takes on new dimensions in Lehane's sixth crime novel to feature Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, last seen in 1999's Prayers for Rain. Twelve years earlier, in 1998's Gone, Baby, Gone, Patrick and Angie investigated the...
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Dennis Lehane, Author William Morrow & Co Inc $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-688-16316-7
Lehane ventures beyond his acclaimed private eye series with this emotionally wrenching crime drama about the effects of a savage killing on a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Written with a sensitivity toward character that exceeds...
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Dennis Lehane. Morrow, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-000490-3
Edgar-winner Lehane wraps up the Joe Coughlin saga that began with The Given Day (2008) and Live by Night (2012) in fine fashion. By 1942, Irish-American gangster Joe Coughlin is almost untouchable. In his own mind, he's an irreplaceable asset not...
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Dennis Lehane. Ecco, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-212938-3
Set in contemporary Boston, this expertly wrought character study masquerading as a thriller from Edgar-winner Lehane (World Gone By) features his first-ever female protagonist. Once a star journalist, until something snapped during her TV coverage...
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Dennis Lehane, Author . Morrow $27.95 (704p) ISBN 978-0-688-16318-1
In a splendid flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction (Gone, Baby, Gone
; Mystic River
), Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by pride and the strictures of the Catholic...
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Dennis Lehane, Author . Morrow $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-113967-3
Lehane (Mystic River
) hints in the first of these five richly vernacular (and, save one, previously published) stories and one play that "a small town is a hard place to keep a secret." In "Running Out of Dog," two Vietnam vets...
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Dennis Lehane, Author . Morrow $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-688-16317-4
Know this: Lehane's new novel, his first since the highly praised and bestselling Mystic River, carries an ending so shocking yet so faithful to what has come before, that it will go down as one of the most aesthetically right resolutions ever...
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Dennis Lehane, read by Julia Whelan. HarperAudio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-212947-5
Reader Whelan captures the complexity of the protagonist and suspense of Lehane’s psychological thriller set in contemporary Boston. The story revolves around Rachel Childs, the once rising star TV news reporter whose career ended in 2009, when she...
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Dennis Lehane, Author, David Strathairn, Read by, Tom Stechschulte, Read by , read by Tom Stechschulte. Harper Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-055414-9
Audio reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FictionSHUTTER ISLANDDennis Lehane, read by Tom Stechschulte. Harper Audio, unabridged, six cassettes, 9.5 hrs., $
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Dennis Lehane, Author, Michael Boatman, Performed by , read by Michael Boatman. HarperAudio $75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-166151-8
A seasoned TV and film actor, Michael Boatman is an excellent choice for Lehane's historical fiction. Set in Boston at the time of the 1919 policemen's strike, the novel involves a range of characters including Babe Ruth and sundry African-
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Edited by David Baldacci, read by multiple narrators. S&S Audio, , 10 CDs, 11 hrs., unabridged, $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-7004-3
This anthology, in which members of the International Thriller Writers society double up on 11 short mysteries featuring their famous protagonists in tandem, is both gimmicky and intriguing—and surprisingly testosterone-soaked. All but two of the...
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Dennis Lehane, Author, Tom Stechschulte, Read by , read by Tom Stechschulte. Harper Audio $19.98 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-190628-2
Repackaged as a tie-in to the forthcoming movie, this audio version of Lehane's 2003 chilling novel features two U.S. marshals who arrive at an island off the coast of Massachusetts that's being used as a federal hospital for the...
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Edited by David Baldacci. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6206-7
A clever concept distinguishes this anthology sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. Each of the 11 stories pairs well-known series characters created by different authors, sometimes in adversarial but more often in collegial ways, and...
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Dennis Lehane. Harper, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-212948-2
Set during the summer of 1974, this superior crime drama from bestseller Lehane (Since We Fell) explores deep-rooted racism in South Boston. While the community primes for a series of rallies organized by mob boss Marty Butler against school...
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