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Lehane's stunning thriller sees the return of tough-talking, hard-playing Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. The detectives are enjoying Indian summer in their office in an old church belfry in Dorchester - the blue-collar, racially and ethnically diverse but troubled part of Boston where they grew up - when they are called to their next case. Dr. Diandra Warren, a prominent psychiatrist, believes she has inadvertently angered a powerful member of the Boston Irish Mafia and asks Patrick and Angie to protect her vulnerable son from retribution. Can the detectives shield him from the thug who is not only right-hand man to the head of the Irish Mafia but who grew up with Patrick and Angie? Can Dr. Warren's ex-husband, the most powerful district attorney in the Boston area, help to protect his estranged son? As the detectives are drawn deeper into the case, bodies begin piling up around them. The clues begin to point unaccountably to an unlikely suspect - a serial killer who has been in prison for twenty years of a life sentence. Patrick and Angie must find out if he has indeed inexplicably resurfaced and what, if anything, his connection is to the people from their neighborhood.

"...he's [Lehane] created a villain who's both surprising and grimly fascinating: The kind of figure one hates but can't stop reading about."

Kirkus, 06/01/1996

"...Lehane is one of those brave new detective stylists who is not afraid of fooling around with the genre's traditions....This is his second Kenzie and Gennaro saga, and clearly their unquiet efforts to age with dignity and learn something about love are are a sustaining mark of this series. Combine that attention to the young detectives with taut writing and an insistent focus on the grim intimacies of crime and care that sustain them amid the changes that have come to their old Boston neighborhood, and you have a very winning series indeed."

Paul Skenazy, Washington Post Book World, 07/21/1996

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