Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane delivers an explosive tale of integrity and vengeance—heralding the long-awaited return of private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl—only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home.
Now Amanda is sixteen—and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. 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.
Haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most. 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. It's a world in which motives and allegiances constantly shift and mistakes are fatal.
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. 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.
"It is almost embarrassing to admit this: until now, I had not read Dennis Lehane. If Moonlight Mile is typical Lehane, he is indeed a master writer. I was enthralled with this book. It is a sequel to "Gone Baby Gone" but does stand up on its own as a fantastic piece of investigative crime fiction. Patrick Kenzie and his wife Angela Gennaro are private investigators searching for a missing teenager who has irked the Russian mafia. In writing that is crisp, humorous and authentic, Lehane grabs the reader and pulls them through this dark tale. And this reader, for one, was glad for the ride. Boston breathes throughout this novel, as do the very real characters here. Nothing felt like a stereotype here. In one book, Lehane has gained a new fan. I can't wait to catch up to more by him."
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