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Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Patrick's mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the sweet and simple beauty described by her father, and even Chandler would have been amazed by the plot twists that Lehane manages to keep coming.
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The electrifying sequel to Darkness, Take My Hand.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is about the fourth Kenzie & Gennaro novel I have read and is absolutely the best. Patrick and Angie are hired by dying Billionaire, Trevor Stone, to look for his missing daughter Desiree, and they embark on a non-stop, action packed, thriller. Throughout the book there are moments of humour and romance, as well as non-stop action. There are more twists in the tale than I think I have ever known in a book and most, although not all, I really didn't see coming. This book is exceptionally well written and I couldn't put it down. The two main characters are extremely likeable, even though they are not without their flaws, and you find yourself rooting for them all the way through the book. My only complaint is that there is a lot of reference to a previous case which I presume is dealt with in a previous book. I will have to check which book this is and buy it immediately. Even though this book gives away what happens in it, nothing could spoil a Lehane novel. However, if you have the chance, check out which order you should read Lehane's books in.
At the risk of repeating myself, this book is fantastic and if you haven't read a Kenzie & Gennaro novel, what are you waiting for?
At the risk of repeating myself, this book is fantastic and if you haven't read a Kenzie & Gennaro novel, what are you waiting for?
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Private Investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are back. They've closed their office, because of what happened in the last book ("Darkness Take My Hand") and are adamant about not taking on any more cases. At least for a while. But dying billionaire Trevor Stone has different ideas. He has the pair kidnapped, so that they're forced to listen to his proposal. They don't want to, but he offers them twenty grand just to hear what he has to say. Then he tells them about how his darling daughter, who turns out not to be so darling after all, has gone missing in Florida. He's sent PI Jay Becker after her, the man who taught Patrick the biz, but he's vanished as well.
This book takes us out of the seamier side of Boston and isn't as dark as Lehane's last two novels. Though this one is a little lighter in tone, it's still full of the twists and turns we've come to expect from Lehane and, like his last two books, this one too is worth every one of those five stars.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
This book takes us out of the seamier side of Boston and isn't as dark as Lehane's last two novels. Though this one is a little lighter in tone, it's still full of the twists and turns we've come to expect from Lehane and, like his last two books, this one too is worth every one of those five stars.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Superbly engaging book full of suspense , humour , intrigue , excitement, passion in short everything you could ask for in a good book. Dennis Lehane has to be one of the very best writers of this genre and I defy anyone not to enjoy this book
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sacred
I don't always read the back cover of a book, particularly when it's one by an author I'm familiar with. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ali
A step back...
The third novel in the Kenzie-Gennaro series is arguably the weakest. The setting in Florida means that the geographical heart, so intrinsic to the first two novels is lost and you... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Richard Holliday
Superb
Absolutely loved this book, it had so many twists and turns and I never saw the ending coming - which probably says a lot about me (!). A brilliant read, I highly recommend
Published 3 months ago by London Girl
Maltese Falcon revisited
I recently re-read the Maltese Falcon .. and having just finished Sacred, I am hit by the strong similarities. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Ramses
Kenzie and Gennaro in Florida
This is a slight departure for the detective pair, as a case leads them to visit the sunny climes of Florida, where the usual shenannigans occur - deaths, pursuits, stake-outs... Read more
Published 15 months ago by L. Hennessy
Favourite Lehane book so far
Yay, the third Dennis Lehane book I've read (following the Drink Before... and Darkness... in the Kenzie/Gennaro series) and this is clearly his turning point into a great... Read more
Published 20 months ago by P. J. Potter
a very very good tale
This was my third K&G thriller and I'm happy to say that the high standard set in the omnibus edition of A drink before the war & Darkness Take My Hand is continued in this... Read more
Published 22 months ago by I. B. Pitbladdo
Excellent page turner
1st Lehane book and if they're as good as this I will read many more.
Published on 24 May 2010 by M. Thomas
Absolute Corker!
Dennis Lehane has been writing since 1994 and I believe this was the third book he wrote. I have only read one previous Lehane novel and thoroughly enjoyed it. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2009 by Best Books To Read
The best I ever read
The best crime fiction I have ever read,it is fast moving , very stylish prose and writing, classy detective novel,in the same category as Raymond Chandler's crime... Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2009 by Dr. R. Wunna
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