Kenzie & Gennaro Books in Order: How to read Dennis Lehane’s series?
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What is the Kenzie & Gennaro series about?
Written by the famous Boston writer and screenwriter Dennis Lehane, this detective series features Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
Tough and flawed private investigators from the blue-collar streets of Dorchester, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro work together to find the truth, which isn’t just a dirty business in Boston, it’s also a deadly one. They try to right wrongs because it’s about justice for them.
How to read the Kenzie & Gennaro Books in Order?
- A Drink Before the War – 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.
- Darkness, Take My Hand – Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate. But an evil for which even they are unprepared is about to strike.
- Sacred – A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money… Enter Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen it all – and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory, where trusting anyone could get them killed, and where nothing is sacred.
- Gone, Baby, Gone – The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don’t want the case. But after pleas from the child’s aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything: their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives to find a little girl lost.
- Prayers for Rain – When a former client jumps naked from a Boston landmark, Patrick Kenzie wants to know why. Once a perky young woman in love with life, her suicide is the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction. What Kenzie discovers is a sadistic stalker who targeted the woman and methodically drove her to her death…
- Red Eye – Short story co-written with Michael Connelly and published in the anthology “FaceOff,” where Patrick Kenzie meets Harry Bosch.
- Moonlight Mile – Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood 12 years ago. Kenzie and Gennaro risked everything to find the young girl – only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is 16 – and gone again. Haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most. Their search leads them into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, a mentally unstable crime boss and his equally demented wife, a priceless, thousand-year-old cross, and a happily homicidal Russian gangster.
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