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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. ( ) 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.... 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. 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. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found.
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