The dialogue still races along, offering the occasional laugh-out-loud moment. It may be 11 years since the last Kenzie-Gennaro outing, but it feels like it was only last year. But when the aunt of a child he had recovered in the book Gone, Baby, Gone, turns up and asks Patrick to find her missing niece, now 16, one more time, we are back in familiar territory. Patrick is still working as a PI, struggling with some moral conflicts in his assignments from a prestigious law firm, while Angie is trying to find some sanity in non-life-threatening work. In Moonlight Mile, Patrick and Angie are themselves parents.

He returns also to themes of parents and children that informed the five-book series Lehane produced in the 1990s. As they face an evil that goes beyond broken families and broken dreams, they discover that the sins of yesterday don't always stay buried and the crimes of today could end their lives.ĭennis Lehane returns to the world of Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and his partner, now wife, Angie Gennaro. In their desperate fight to confront the past and find Amanda McCready, Kenzie and Gennaro will be forced to question if it's possible to do the wrong thing and still be right or to do the right thing and still be wrong. It's a world in which motives and allegiances constantly shift and mistakes are fatal. Their search leads them into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, a mentally unstable crime boss and his equally demented wife, a priceless, thousand-year-old cross, and a happily homicidal Russian gangster. Haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most. Yet Amanda's aunt is once more knocking on Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, clever young woman-a woman who hasn't been seen in weeks. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. The pair risked everything to find the young girl-only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case.

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago.

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