Sacred
Author: Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and….Read More
12 Books Similar to Sacred
A Drink Before the War
Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Family Violence, Read & Listen for $14.99 or Less, Read & Listen for Less, United States
Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole Novels)
The second blistering Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of THE FIRST RULE.Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Hard-Boiled Mystery, Veterans
Prayers for Rain
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Boston’s gritty blue-collar streets.Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie… Continue Reading Posted in: Angela (Fictitious Character), Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Gennaro, Hard-Boiled Mystery, Read & Listen for Less
Indigo Slam: An Elvis Cole Novel
Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole—until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes. Three years ago, a Seattle… Continue Reading Posted in: Cole, Detective And Mystery Stories, Elvis (Fictitious Character), Hard-Boiled Mystery, Mystery Fiction, Mystery Series
Voodoo River
L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six… Continue Reading Posted in: Cole, Detective And Mystery Stories, Elvis (Fictitious Character), Mystery Fiction
Gone, Baby, Gone
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… Continue Reading Posted in: Massachusetts Boston, Suspense Fiction, United States
In the Moon of Red Ponies
In James Lee Burke's last novel featuring Billy Bob Holland, Bitterroot, the former Texas Ranger left his home state to help a friend threatened by the most dangerous sociopath Billy… Continue Reading Posted in: Trials (Murder), Veterans, Vietnam War (1961 1975)
The Drop
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.DNA from a… Continue Reading Posted in: Cold Cases (Criminal Investigation), Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction
Backspin
Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy… Continue Reading Posted in: Amateur Sleuths, Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Mystery Series, Pennsylvania Philadelphia
The Given Day
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times best-selling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a… Continue Reading Posted in: 1919, Boston, History, Mass., Police Strike, Psychological Fiction, Suspense Thrillers, World War I Historical Fiction
Mystic River
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two… Continue Reading Posted in: Mystery, Police, Suspense Fiction
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