Moonlight Mile

by Dennis Lehane Narrated by Jonathan Davis

Overview

amp;#8220;[Lehane has] emerged from the whodunit ghetto as a broader and more substantial talent....When it comes to keeping readers exactly where he wants them, Mr. Lehane offers a bravura demonstration of how itamp;#8217;s done.amp;#8221;
amp;#8212;New York Times

Moonlight Mile is the first Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro suspense novel in more than a decade from the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane. An explosive tale of vengeance and redemptionamp;#8212;the brilliant sequel to Gone, Baby, Goneamp;#8212;Moonlight Mile returns Lehaneamp;#8217;s unforgettable and deeply human detective duo to the mean streets of blue collar Boston to investigate the second disappearance of Amanda McCready, now sixteen years old. After his remarkable success with Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day, the celebrated author whom the Washington Post praises as, amp;#8220;one of those brave new detective stylists who is not afraid of fooling around with the genreamp;#8217;s traditions,amp;#8221; returns to his rootsamp;#8212;and the result, as always, is electrifying.

Editorial Reviews

In the late nineties, a 4-year-old girl disappeared from her home in a Boston suburb. Investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro worked overtime to locate and retrieve her. Now, a dozen years later, Amanda has vanished again and Kenzie and Gennaro are back on the trail. As they assess the case, they become convinced that the old case holds clues to the new one. Moonlight Mile is the explosive standalone sequel to Dennis Lehane's Gone, Baby, Gone (9780061336218), which received high marks from general readers and reviewers.

Publishers Weekly

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 kidnapping of four-year-old Amanda McCready. The case drove a temporary wedge between the pair after Patrick returned Amanda to her mother's neglectful care. Now Patrick and Angie are married, the parents of four-year-old Gabriella, and barely making ends meet with Patrick's PI gigs while Angie finishes graduate school. But when Amanda's aunt comes to Patrick and tells him that Amanda, now a 16-year-old honor student, is once again missing, he vows to find the girl, even if it means confronting the consequences of choices he made that have haunted him for years. While Lehane addresses much of the moral ambiguity from Gone, this entry lacks some of the gritty rawness of the early Kenzie and Gennaro books. (Nov.)

Library Journal

This is Lehane's (www.dennislehanebooks.com) sixth novel to feature Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, whose working and personal relationship ended in Gone, Baby, Gone (1998) over Kenzie's decision to return a rescued four-year-old kidnapping victim, Amanda McCready, to her abusive mother. In this sequel, set 12 years later, Patrick and Angie are now married and have a four-year-old child of their own. When Amanda, now 16, once again goes missing, Patrick is determined to find her and redeem himself in Angie's eyes. Narrator Jonathan Davis affects a pseudo-Bostonian accent when speaking as Patrick; his Russian accent and humorous portrayal of the Russian characters make for an enjoyable listen. Recommended for crime novel enthusiasts and fans of the series. ["A few false notes involve some cartoonish Russian villains, but the resolution, while sad to series fans, makes perfect sense," read the review of the New York Times best-selling Morrow hc, LJ 9/15/10; the Harper mass market pb will publish in July 2011.—Ed.]—Ilka Gordon, Siegal Coll. of Judaic Studies Lib., Cleveland

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173498335
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	11/15/2019
Series:	Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro , #6
Edition description:	Unabridged

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