it was ok, some great some not at all. my least favorite of his so far. Too much violence for my taste but Lehane remains a great storyteller.
“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.” - Inferno, DanteThese books crawl under my skin. I always feel brave and strong while reading them because I seem to stomach everything but oh, look at how dumb you are, Anna. They linge...
Sacred (read by Robert Lawrence, directed by J.C. Howe, engineered by Kim King) Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter. Grief-stricken over the death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree...
I'm just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. Say it rained in Dallas and so Kennedy didn't ride in a convertible. Stalin stayed in the seminary. Say you and me, Sean, say we got in that car with Dave Boyle. A horrible murder is co...
È inutile che io cerchi di essere obiettiva con Lehane.Ritrovare il binomio Kenzie-Gennaro dopo due mesi e passa è il calore in persona. Non che loro abbiano da offrire thé, pasticcini e chiacchierate su quanto sia bella la vita, ma è bello sapere che dopo una giornata scolastica sfiancante andra...
"What had begun as a nighttime ride into the unknown had turned cold and stale during the hard yellow lurch into morning" (34).“The man’s eyes are the clear and the bright of skyscraper panes” (58).“…a guy in a johnny leading his IV-stand across the carpet as if it’s a slow relative…” (63).“Thoug...
A little disclosure: I think Dennis Lehane is perhaps the best crime writer in the last 50 years. I love this guy and have read almost everything he's every written (there are literally only two books by him left and one them is Mystic River which I've seen the film version of like 10 times). I...
*3.5 Stars* Once that ugliness has been forced into you, it becomes part of your blood, dilutes it, races through your heart and back out again, staining everything as it goes. The ugliness never goes away, never comes out, no matter what you do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive.There have b...
More money bet than would be bet the rest of the year on the NCAA Final Four, the Kentucky Derby, the NBA Championship Series, the Stanley Cup, and the World Series combined. If paper money hadn’t been invented yet, they would have created it just to handle the weight and volume of today’s wagers...
With Billy Kovich down at the morgue, Joe was surprised to wake up feeling less safe, not more. So when Dion called to convince Joe that no matter how many of Rico’s bodyguards he hired, he still didn’t live in a gated house, Joe put up far less of a fight than his friend would have expected. He ...
Angie repeated. “Come on, John. We know she was treated by Grief Release.” John licked his lips, blinked. He hadn’t spoken in over a minute and Bubba was getting restless. “John,” I said. “I know I had a lighter around here somewhere.” Bubba looked bewildered for a moment. He patted his pants poc...
The town lay twenty-five miles south of the New York border in the heart of the Berkshires. This time of year, the hills were sprinkled with snow and the damp roads were black and slick. Becket had a main road but no Main Street. It had no town center we could find, no one-block strip containing ...
Jay rubbed his eyes with his fists. “I got the room next door to him. Cheap walls. I sat with my head against the wall an entire day listening to him over there in his room. Maybe, I dunno, I was listening for sounds of regret, weeping, anguish, anything. But he just watched TV and drank all day....
Just lie down. Just wither away. "What do you want?""I want a vault." McKenna's eyes sparkled. "Oh, I want the Crisis mailing list.""What?""The Crisis. The newsletter of the National Association for the Advancement of Chimpanzees.""I know what it is. Where would I get the mailing list?""Well, Isa...