Tag: dennis lehane
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Sacred by Dennis Lehane
Another just fine Lehane book about rich guy’s missing daughter, a stand-in for Scientology and a field trip to Florida. His mid-tier books make great comfort food.
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Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
Lehane is an instant-buy in a used bookshop for me. I’ve come to his books all out of sequence but it doesn’t matter. This is the fifth book in the series that includes Gone, Baby, Gone, and it’s decidedly second-tier Lehane. Still very readable, engaging and effective mystery thrillers, but not on the level of Mystic River or Small…
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Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
Lehane is a storytelling genius. Elmore Leonard would have been proud to write this. It’s so real, and so vivid. Lehane can create fully formed characters with a couple of sentences: …something both irretrievably broken and wholly unbreakable lives at the core of this woman. And those two qualities cannot coexist. A broken person can’t…