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In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of 'Southie', the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.
One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.
The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched - asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don't take kindly to any threat to their business.
Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city's desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism.
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, bestselling
author Dennis Lehane's extraordinary eighth novel unflinchingly
captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the
crossroads where past meets future. Filled with a cast of richly
drawn, unforgettable characters, The Given Day tells the story of
two families--one black, one white--swept up in a maelstrom of
revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses,
Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for
survival and power. Coursing through the pivotal events of a
turbulent epoch, it explores the crippling violence and
irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the
thrall of, itself.
As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is
the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of
Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir--and introduced Patrick
Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private
investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.
A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie
and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find a missing
cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and
Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about
justice, about right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth
isn't just a dirty business . . . it's deadly.
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Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane
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New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's classic novel
featuring beloved P.I.s Kenzie and Gennaro captures the dark
realism of Boston's gritty blue-collar streets
When Patrick first meets Karen Nichols, she strikes him as a
naive woman from a protected upbringing, untouched by tragedy. But
six months later Karen commits suicide by leaping from one of
Boston's monuments. Patrick finds himself wondering what can alter
someone so drastically, so quickly, that suicide seems her only
option. yet Patrick soon suspects that the tragic events that
befell Karen during the last months of her life--an "accident" that
destroyed her fiance; the loss of her job, her apartment, and
eventually her mind--may not have been as random as they first
appeared.
Enlisting the aid of his ex-partner and ex-flame, Angela
Gennaro, as well as that of his friend, the lethally unbalanced
Bubba Rogowski, Patrick enters into a treacherous game of
cat-and-mouse with a man who, instead of merely killing his
victims, prefers to make them wish they were dead. As Patrick,
Angie, and Bubba wage psychological warfare with this brilliant,
depraved sociopath, they discover they might be fighting a losing
battle against an enemy who is determined to tear their worlds
apart.
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Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane
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"Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and
can't-put-it-down entertainment." -- Stephen King The acclaimed New
York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival
Mystic River--an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love,
festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most
tumultuous episodes in Boston's history. In the summer of 1974 a
heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay
one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her
entire life in the housing projects of "Southie," the Irish
American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and
stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules
stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young
Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious
circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat,
propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins
turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that
bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who
work for him, men who don't take kindly to any threat to their
business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city's
desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small
Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and
power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American
racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis
Lehane could write.
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Faceoff (Paperback)
David Baldacci; Lee Child, Michael Connelly, John Sandford, Lisa Gardner, …
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Collectibles (Hardcover)
Lawrence Block; Contributions by Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates
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From Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of The Given Day, comes a
spellbinding tour de force that brings to life a bygone era when
vice was a national virtue
Boston, 1926. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network
of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt
cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent police captain,
has graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the
pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters. But life on the dark side
carries a heavy price. Beyond money and power, even the threat of
prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early
death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to
live life to the hilt.
Joe's dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime takes
him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of
Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by
Night is a riveting epic layered with loyal friends and callous
enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting
evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their
piece of the American dream.
Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are
hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed
on a warm, Indian summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely
apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous
drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or
dead children they may be too far over the edge to come back.
Despite enormous public attention, rabid news coverage, and dogged
police work, the investigation repeatedly hits a brick wall. Then a
second child disappears....As the two detectives intensify their
search, they encounter a media more interested in sensationalizing
the abductions than solving them, a midnight ransom drop that
explodes into a firefight, a city seething with secrets and rage,
and a faceless power determined to keep the children lost forever.
THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH APRIL 2023 'Small Mercies is
thought-provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down
entertainment' Stephen King 'A jaw-dropping thriller... a resonant,
unflinching story written by a novelist who is simply one of the
best around' Gillian Flynn New York Times bestselling author Dennis
Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River - an
all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and
insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in
Boston's history. 'Mrs. Fennessy, please go home.' 'And do what?'
'Whatever you do when you're home.' 'And then what?' 'Get up the
next day and do it again.' She shakes her head. 'That's not
living.' 'It is if you can find the small blessings.' She smiles,
but her eyes shine with agony. 'All my small blessings are gone.'
In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat
Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors.
Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of
'Southie', the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to
old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat's
teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That
same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway
train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem
unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her
missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched -
asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish
mob, and the men who work for him, men who don't take kindly to any
threat to their business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months
when the city's desegregation of its public schools exploded in
violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of
criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark
heart of American racism.
Along with completely original material, this new collection is
a compilation of the best of Dennis Lehane's previously published
short fiction, including "Until Gwen," which was adapted for the
stage in 2005 and appears in this book as the play Coronado. By
turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic, these
powerful tales journey headlong into the heart of our national
myths--and reveal that the truth awaiting us there is not what we
would expect.
Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are
hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready. Despite extensive news
coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction, the police
have uncovered nothing. And as the Indian summer fades, Amanda
McCready stays gone - vanished so completely that she seems never
to have existed. Then a second child disappears. Confronted with a
police force seething with lethal secrets, Kenzie and Gennaro soon
discover that those who go looking for the missing may not come
back alive.
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