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Sacred (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels) (Hardcover)

by Dennis Lehane (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (Feb 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0727856766
  • ISBN-13: 978-0727856760
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.6 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 741,330 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Desiree Stone has been missing for three weeks and her father hires Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to search for his missing daughter. Travelling from the streets of Boston to the Florida's gulf coast, they are led down a trail of half-truths and corruption. They realise that on this case, any wrong step will certainly be their last.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC, 1 Dec 2003
This review is from: Sacred (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?
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best thriller writer around!, 27 Jan 2002
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This review is from: Sacred (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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Full of Twists and Turns, 7 Jan 2008
By Katie Osborne (Portland, Oregon and the sunny Caribbean) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sacred (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 2 months ago by Kat Everett

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 10 months ago by Dr. R. Wunna

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy reading
I throughly enjoyed this book, the more so since I have read other Lehane novels which had nothing to do with this PI series of Kenzie and Gennaro. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Michael Watson

5.0 out of 5 stars mystic river
I picked up mystic river by chance, absolutely loved it and ordered all he has written. Enjoyed everyone of them! BRILLIANT!
Published 22 months ago by chris

4.0 out of 5 stars When is the film being made?
This is a great crime thriller which is just begging to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster. The story has a twist at every corner and the characters are believeable enough for... Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2007 by Hayles

5.0 out of 5 stars superb
Ashamed to say I've only just found this guy - what a superb writer. The characters are brilliantly drawn - lots of wit, violence and some intense psychological stuff! Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2002 by Penny Harvey

5.0 out of 5 stars A first-rate author, and an excellent story
I recently discovered Lehane's books through reviews here on Amazon. What a splendid surprise!

Set in Boston, they feature a pair of PIs who grew up in the poor part of town and... Read more

Published on 26 Feb 2001 by Kirk McElhearn

4.0 out of 5 stars Promising...but not as good as Darkness, Take My Hand
Dennis Lehane has got me hooked. Everything I've read has been very gripping with a healthy dose of banter and great twists. I enjoyed Sacred, but not as much as I wanted to. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Here's an author who just keeps on getting better!
"Sacred" is Dennis Lehane's third detective novel featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro and there's no doubt at all that Lehane gets better... Read more
Published on 8 May 2000 by stugar@zoom.co.uk

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it - it's great!
Dennis Lehane has got the art of writing with humnour on a serious subject off to a fine art, as this actually made me laugh out loud, a rare thing. Read more
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