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 Gone, Baby, Gone byDennis Lehane Avon Books 422 pages, 1999 ISBN 0380730359 Reviewed by PJ Nunn Read our review of Prayers for Rain Read our author interview What happens when wrong is right and right is wrong? Patrick Kenzie and Angelo Gennaro are an unlikely detective duo, but the chemistry works. They've grown up in the neighborhood and still have cohorts on both sides of the law. When they're presented with the case of a missing four-year old girl, neither of them wants to take it. Haunted by visions of the lost little girl, they toss out better judgment and plunge into the case. Soon, it's hard to tell the good from the bad guys. Everyone has a secret and no one's talking. Careful investigation reveals money as the root of the crime, and Patrick and Angie arrange a trade - the money for the girl. Seems simple. With the rendezvous spot guarded like Ft. Knox, how is everyone getting shot? When they come down the mountain, grateful to be alive, they find their contacts are dead too. Something is very, very wrong. Author Dennis Lehane doesn't sugarcoat anything. His writing is dark, brooding, and compelling. But he creates characters we'd recognize on the street, with realistic shades of gray and dialogue that takes us right on the scene with them. Gone, Baby, Gone tackles issues most of us would rather not think about. It's masterfully written, impossible to put down. The author does not attempt to give pat answers and synthetic solutions, but artfully fashions a plot to keep the reader on the edge of his seat awaiting the final outcome. No other book I've read gives the reader such insight to a situation in which the legally correct resolution is so obviously the emotionally wrong decision. The final gripping pages of this book do just that as we slip inside Patrick's head and suffer along as he wrestles with the choice of maintaining his professional integrity or following his heart. The decision could cost him all that he holds dear. A realistic detective adventure Gone, Baby, Gone will whet your appetite for more. |
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