Darkness, Take My Hand

Author: Dennis Lehane

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  • : $20.00 AUD
  • : 9780553818215
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
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  • : 0.26
  • : August 2006
  • : 178mm X 106mm X 32mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
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  • : Dennis Lehane
  • : Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
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  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : 512
  • : Crime & mystery
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Barcode 9780553818215
9780553818215

Description

When wisecracking detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist who believes she may have angered the Boston Irish Mafia, they soon find bodies are piling up around them - seemingly unconnected with their case. And what's more all the clues point to an unlikely suspect - a serial killer who has been in prison for twenty years, so he can't be killing again, can he? As Angie and Patrick try to find out what kind of human being could perform such horrifying acts of rape, mutilation, torture and dismemberment, they discover that the killer's motive is disturbingly rooted in their own distant past. In a series of heart-stopping climaxes that grow ever more terrifying and bloody, the two work frantically with the Boston cops, the FBI, the local Mafia, and the folks from their old neighbourhood to unearth the killer before they become victims themselves.

Promotion info

An electrifying thriller that is at once gut-wrenchingly violent and achingly melancholy.

Author description

Dennis Lehane is the author of A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR (which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel); DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND; SACRED; GONE, BABY, GONE; PRAYERS FOR RAIN; SHUTTER ISLAND and the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller MYSTIC RIVER. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he lives in the Boston area.