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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Patrick's mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the sweet and simple beauty described by her father, and even Chandler would have been amazed by the plot twists that Lehane manages to keep coming.

Written like a classic Private Eye novel. I rather liked it. Beach or long plane/train trip read.

Reserved for Deepswamp in a trade.

RELEASE NOTES:

Sent to Deepswamp in Sweden as a trade - thank you very much!

Thank you! Dennis Lehane is a favorite!

Thanks! I liked this book very much!

Oh, this book came just as I was thinking that it's another bloody boring Monday. Today's not. So thanks Deepswamp, you're a star!

A great book. great characters. Reminds me somehow of Ian Rankin. In his Rebus series there's Edinburgh, in Lehane's there's Boston as a very important part of the book.I can' t wait to read the next book.

Thanks again Deepswamp for this. I will keep the book going. There's a bookcrosser out there who has this book in their wishlist...

Received as a RABCK, excellent......did you know his book gone baby gone has been made into anothe r great film

I enjoyed this, it reminded me of Raymond Chandler back in the good old days.