We at HarperLibrary are very excited about the new book from Dennis Lehane entitled Moonlight Mile. Clearly we are not the only ones! Check out this great review from Lesa Holstine, Library Manager from Arizona:
Lesa's Book Critiques
Books and Authors, with an emphasis on Mysteries.
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
Twelve years ago, Angela Gennaro walked out on her partner, Patrick Kenzie when he turned four-year-old Amanda McCready over to her mother in Gone, Baby, Gone. There was one more book in the series, then Dennis Lehane moved on to standalone novels, leaving Kenzie/Gennaro fans begging for more. We've waited eleven years for Moonlight Mile, but we finally have the novel that concludes the series in a way we can live with.
Twelve years after the events of Gone, Baby, Gone, Patrick Kenzie is still a private investigator. He's also a desperate man, "Sucking it up doing jobs I don't like for a company I'm not terribly in love with so that eventually I can get hired permanent and we can get insurance and benefits and a paid vacation." He and Angie are married. She's close to getting her doctorate, and they have a four-year-old daughter. But, they're hurting in a bad economy just as everyone else is. He lost his free office as a consequence of the church reforms in Boston following their failure to deal with bad priests. Patrick is feeling the same desperation as so many people in the bad economy, worrying about money and mortgage payments.
And, Amanda McCready has disappeared again. Her aunt never forgave Patrick for giving Amanda back to her lousy mother. Since Bea blames Patrick for the past, she wants him to find the sixteen-year-old. But, now, she's a sixteen-year-old on the run from her crazy mother and gun-toting husband, with just a few members of the Russian mob after her. So why wouldn't Patrick look for Amanda when, "A girl disappears again twelve years after her first disappearance brought down a gang of cops and cost the city a few mil during a bad budget year?" Of course, he'll take the case that drove a wedge between him and Angie twelve years earlier.
Dennis Lehane has brought us full circle with Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro Kenzie. And, he is still the master at telling the story of the couple and their community. They're brought up-to-date in a city suffering from a bad economy; empty houses, unfinished developments, and people desperate to survive. It's a story of consequences, consequences as a result of events twelve years earlier, and consequences of events the characters have no control over, the economy. Moonlight Mile allows Patrick and Angie to team up for one more case, while Angie reminds him "Why we got out of the rough stuff business. It wasn't just because you got shot. It was because we were junkies to it. We loved it. We still love it."
And, we still love Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. So, thank you, Dennis Lehane, for Moonlight Mile. Here's a fan who accepts Moonlight Mile as a satisfying conclusion to a beloved series.
Dennis Lehane's website is http://www.dennislehanebooks.com/
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane. HarperCollins, ©2010. ISBN 9780061836923 (hardcover), 336p.
Thank you!
Lesa
Many thanks Lesa! Pick up your copy of Moonlight Mile NOW!
Enjoy!
-Bobby
