- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Books; New edition edition (1 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553812211
- ISBN-13: 978-0553812213
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 439,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Prayers for Rain is Dennis Lehane's fifth instalment in his intricately plotted, beautifully written and much under-acknowledged 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 Gone, Baby, Gone. Without Angie, private investigating has lost its fizz.
The suicide of a former client, Karen Nichols, gives Kenzie his investigative itch back. Six months earlier, Kenzie tracked down a stalker who had been harassing Nichols and put an end to his heinous hobby. But Nichols needed more help than this PI could ever have imagined. "She'd been drowning and I'd been busy." The successful, middle-class young woman had been sinking into a sea of drugs, alcohol and prostitution, hitting the bottom when she jumped from the Boston Custom House. Her death consumes Kenzie--he is convinced that someone pulled her into the vortex, although her nearest and dearest simply call her weak.
Kenzie teams up with his explosive, loving, gun-toting friend Bubba Rogowski, and, after a boozy reunion, Angie Gennaro joins them. This fearless threesome must surely be the most original team in contemporary crime fiction. Good at the core--but seriously screwed up by various demons from their pasts--tact and decorum is hardly their style. They work their way across Boston, doing whatever it takes to question Nichols's family and acquaintances. By unveiling the real Nichols, tragic family secrets, betrayals and conspiracies are also unmasked.
If you haven't experienced Dennis Lehane's world before, be prepared for an invigorating new reading experience. --Naomi Gesinger --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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In a dangerous battle of wits Kenzie and Gennaro track down a killer whose insidious murder weapon isn't a gun or a knife but instead the merciless psychological manipulation of his victims until despair finally drives his targets to kill themselves.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good story which is full of pace,
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This review is from: Prayers for Rain (Paperback)
This was a bit hard to put down, quite frankly, and I finished it in two sessions.
Parts of the plot are pretty improbable, but the story moves very well with characters who are easy to warm to. Good doses of wit too, here and there. In short, Lehane has done little wrong, in my view, with this very good thriller. There's enough room for a sequel here, so it will be interesting to see if he does follow through.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Lehane is a genius",
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This review is from: Prayers for Rain (Paperback)
I was looking for a book to take away on holiday with me and for some strange reason I chose a book by an author I'd never heard of, and I'm glad I did. I found this book turned the pages itself. I finished it on the first night much to my disappointment as I still had 2weeks left. I have since read all of the Kenzie/Gennero series and I hope Lehane decides to write more. I found the way in which the Lehane takes on the role as Kenzie to be amazing. In some books you see every one perspective which can spoil the plot some what but Lehanes way of writing and attention to detail makes you believe that you are Kenzie. The only thing that spoiled the series for me was the fact that I didn't read them in order, which on a couple of occasions spoiled the plot but never, spoilt a very enjoyable read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
another brilliant lehane novel,
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This review is from: Prayers for Rain (Paperback)
dennis lehane has done it again. a compelling narrative with the usual dark tormented soul stuff but what really makes his novels is the characters. it's enough to make you forgive the use of first person narrative the villainy seems to step up book by book as well. not as dark as sacred, prayers for rain is still full of the violence and passion we've come to expect. and thank god angie gennaro's back.
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