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Moonlight Mile (2010)

by Dennis Lehane

Series: Kenzie & Gennaro (6)

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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. Yet Amanda's aunt is once more knocking on Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, clever young woman, a woman who hasn't been seen in weeks. 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. It's a world in which motives and allegiances constantly shift and mistakes are fatal. In their desperate fight to confront the past and find Amanda McCready, Kenzie and Gennaro will be forced to question if it's possible to do the wrong thing and still be right or to do the right thing and still be wrong. As they face an evil that goes beyond broken families and broken dreams, they discover that the sins of yesterday don't always stay buried and the crimes of today could end their lives.… (more)
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    Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane (WildMaggie)
    WildMaggie: Moonlight Mile continues the story after 12 years and revisits the central moral question of Gone, Baby, Gone with the now-teen-aged missing child able to give her judgement on the main character's choices in the earlier book. For everyone who wondered how things REALLY turned out.… (more)
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I absolutely LOVED this book and I LOVE Dennis Lehane's writing. I'm not sure what else there is to say. This was a wonderful continuance to Gone Baby Gone. ( )
  thatnerd | Mar 2, 2024 |
A good finish to the series. ( )
  cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 |
I don't really know how I feel about this one...it was good, a little convoluted but I enjoyed it. On the other hand I have no desire to read any other books in the series and I don't know how to reconcile that. I guess if it was that compelling I'd have wanted to read on, but since I don't I guess it was just ok...and thus this one goes to the used book store and out of my life.... ( )
  MrMet | Apr 28, 2023 |
I had not read a Kenzie & Gennaro book in years but I did have the final book in the series on shelf and decided to finally get to it. The team had solved a missing girl case, twelve years ago, when Amanda McCready was 4 years old. She is sixteen now and has disappeared again. This is a good solid series and I plan on getting to the remaining 2 or 3, that I have not read. ( )
  msf59 | Mar 5, 2023 |
Five stars aren't enough for a book this great. Lehane captivates with his characters and his smooth, flowing style. This follow up to Gone Baby Gone gives the reader every reason to adore the brilliant young woman Amanda McCready has become, despite her tragic beginning. Patrick, the lovable, flawed hero, captivates with his wit and his devotion to do good and right things in a gray area of the criminal underworld. Angie is tough and a beacon for Patrick, always. Thrilling twists and a lot of thought-inducing scenarios make this a must-read. I can't let any of the details out because it's too amazing an experience to ruin. Chilling, heart breaking, heat warming, and even sometimes humorous, this one shouldn't be missed.
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  bfrisch | Dec 9, 2022 |
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I am just living to be lyning by your side / But I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road - Mick Jagger/Keith Richards, "Moonlight Mile"
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On a bright, unseasonably warm afternoon in early December, Brandon Trescott walked out of the spa at the Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod and got into a taxi.
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...let's clarify something--I'm not a whore. I'm a carnal service provider.
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. Yet Amanda's aunt is once more knocking on Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, clever young woman, a woman who hasn't been seen in weeks. 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. It's a world in which motives and allegiances constantly shift and mistakes are fatal. In their desperate fight to confront the past and find Amanda McCready, Kenzie and Gennaro will be forced to question if it's possible to do the wrong thing and still be right or to do the right thing and still be wrong. As they face an evil that goes beyond broken families and broken dreams, they discover that the sins of yesterday don't always stay buried and the crimes of today could end their lives.

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Publishers Weekly: An old case takes on new dimensions in Lehane's sixth crime novel to feature Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, last seen in 1999's Prayers for Rain. Twelve years earlier, in 1998's Gone, Baby, Gone, Patrick and Angie investigated the kidnapping of four-year-old Amanda McCready. The case drove a temporary wedge between the pair after Patrick returned Amanda to her mother's neglectful care. Now Patrick and Angie are married, the parents of four-year-old Gabriella, and barely making ends meet with Patrick's PI gigs while Angie finishes graduate school. But when Amanda's aunt comes to Patrick and tells him that Amanda, now a 16-year-old honor student, is once again missing, he vows to find the girl, even if it means confronting the consequences of choices he made that have haunted him for years.
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