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Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
Amazon.com Prayers for Rain is Dennis Lehane's fifth installment in his intricately plotted, beautifully written, and much underacknowledged Boston mystery series. Lehane's books reflect our morally complex times, when the borders between right and wrong are somewhat blurry. Private investigator Patrick Kenzie is in the middle of a personal crisis--he's lost his passion for the profession, and is tired of people with their "predictable vices, their predictable needs and wants and dormant desires." Angie Gennaro, his occasional sweetheart, lifelong friend, and fellow investigator has quit the business. She's still deeply resentful about Patrick's handling of the Amanda McCready case, the focus of Hardcover edition. Reader Reviews Lehane is addictive, September 12, 2003 Reviewer: A reader from Austin, Texas USA I recently read "Mystic River", my first Lehane book, and loved it, so I thought I would give one of the Kenzie-Gennaro books a try. I'm so glad I did because "Prayers for Rain" is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's got a fast-moving, nail-biting plot and an antagonist so sinister that you'll find you can't turn the pages fast enough. The dialogue is pitch perfect and the characters are so well written that you'll feel like you know them only a few pages into the book. I can't wait to read the other books in the series.
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