Prayers for Rain
Lehane, Dennis
From Nothing Like a Good Book, Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 30, 2001
From Nothing Like a Good Book, Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 30, 2001
About this Item
In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. The fifth hard-boiled thriller featuring Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. A suicide of a woman who he met six months before prompts Patrick to wonder why her life ended in tragedy. And the more he digs, the more he feels it couldn't have been a suicide. A stunning addition to this excellent hard-boiled series. Bumping to top corners, light wear to edges of flaps, a touch of rubbingto rear flap, tiny spot to fore-edge. Previous owner's name to flyleaf. Seller Inventory # 1001730
Bibliographic Details
Title: Prayers for Rain
Publisher: William Morrow & Co, New York
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: SIGNED by Author on the Title Page
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
About this title
When a former client jumps naked from a Boston landmark, Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why. Once a perky young woman in love with life, her suicide is the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction.
What Kenzie discovers is a sadistic stalker who targeted the woman and methodically drove her to her death – a monster that the law can’t touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against the psychopath, even as he turns tricks on them...
Prayers for Rain is another superior thriller from Dennis Lehane, the bestselling and acclaimed author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone, Baby, Gone.
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
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