“Powerful and raw, harrowing, and unsentimental.”
—Washington Post Book World
“Chilling, completely credible….[An] absolutely gripping story.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Mr. Lehane delivers big time.”
—Wall Street Journal
In Gone, Baby, Gone, the master of the new noir, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island), vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-class Boston. A gripping, deeply evocative thriller about the devastating secrets surrounding a little girl lost, featuring the popular detective team of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, Gone, Baby, Gone was the basis for the critically acclaimed motion picture directed by Ben Affleck and starring Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman.
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"About a quarter through this book, the narrator begins describing a prior case he and Gennaro solved and I had a moment when I thought, "No! How could I have started this in the middle of the series!" I was genuinely upset because Lehane is such a good writer and, had I known, I would have started at the beginning of the Kenzie/Gennaro books. His wordsmithery and characters elevate what could be a typical potboiler. It got a little twisty at the end for my tastes, but still found it satisfying and will continue to pick up Lehane books when I see them. (P.S. Haven't seen the movie yet, so I can't compare them.) (P.P.S. It's depressing as hell, by the way.)"
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Laura (4 out of 5 stars)