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    <body><![CDATA[<strong><u>The part in bold applies to the entire Patrick Kensie / Angie Gennero series.</u></strong><br/><br/><strong>After watching the moving 'Gone Baby Gone' I wanted to read this series of books.  I wasn't disappointed.  The stories may not be classics, but they grab you and you want to read to the end.  Most importantly fo...</strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25422552">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The master of the new <em>noir</em>, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel.</p><p>A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all -- and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory where nothing is sacred -- a land of lies and corruption where trusting anyone could get them killed ... where taking any step could be their last.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The master of the new <em>noir</em>, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel.</p><p>A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all -- and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory where nothing is sacred -- a land of lies and corruption where trusting anyone could get them killed ... where taking any step could be their last.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Insomniacs who are also booklovers must have at the ready a plentiful supply of pulp fiction.  3 a.m., when one is both dead tired and not at all sleepy, is not the time to read an interesting but dry biography.  Nor is it the time to read heady, dreamlike prose (c.f. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63032.2666_Narrativas_Hispanicas_" title="2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) by Roberto Bolaño">2666</a>).  At 3 a.m. one wants som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76696668">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The master of the new <em>noir</em>, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel.</p><p>A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all -- and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory where nothing is sacred -- a land of lies and corruption where trusting anyone could get them killed ... where taking any step could be their last.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, but not Lehane's best.  I agree with other reviewers that this was not as good as A Drink Before the War, Darkness Take My Hand and Gone Baby Gone or Lehane's more recent non-Patrick-Angie books (Mystic River, Shutter Island, and the Given Day).   <br/><br/>This was much more like Prayers fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75721966">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The master of the new <em>noir</em>, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel.</p><p>A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all -- and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory where nothing is sacred -- a land of lies and corruption where trusting anyone could get them killed ... where taking any step could be their last.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA['Sacred' acts as a much-needed respite after the rigors of 'Darkness, Take My Hand', both for the reader and for the characters Patrick and Angie.  This third novel in the fantastic Kenzie/Gennaro detective series is lighter and less emotionally-draining than its predecessor 'Darkness'.  In my opini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50917901">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[And Lehane knocks another one out of the park, as he continues to cement his position as my favorite modern mystery writer. <br/><br/>This one is his tribute to the old school. It's plot filled with Femme Fatales, twisted upper class evil, shadowy cults, corrupt cops, and hard bitten PI's comes st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19686801">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lehane takes the usual missing person's yarn and entangles it an mass of dark and twisty subplots that boil down to one of the craziest and unabashedly campiest climaxes I've ever read in a hardboiled mystery or anything with a madly-motored plot or any novel at all, for that matter.  The novel also...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39872233">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dennis Lehane writes gritty and dark mysteries with lots of violence and tough guy talk.  While I was unhappy with last year's &quot;gone, baby, gone&quot; film adaption with Morgan Freeman and Ben Afleck-- generally I am a fan of these violent novels.  &quot;Sacred&quot; begins with the kidnapping ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19401100">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Looking at the other reviews and ratings, a lot of folks like this writer and his characters. For me, it's Raymond Chandler without the class, Mickey Spillane manque. The story could be a send-up of an entire genre of detective fiction, but it has none of the  finesse that, say, Michael Gruber has. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61136662">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book!  I love Dennis's books.  He always leaves you wondering until the end.  I never thought it was Desiree, the daughter behind all the mystery.  She did have alot of issues.  I kinda felt sorry for her, the dad wanting her dead and him paying people to kill her.  I loved the way Angie and K...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38680994">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don`t know what Sacred refers to in the title, but this story has aspects that are anything but.! ! Daughter of rich Dad goes missing-friend and mentor of the hero goes missing-Father has disgusting sexual history....And so on.I did think the car wreck scene on the bridge was interesting tho.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am now on a Dennis Lahane kick after reading his latest novel which I gave a perfect five stars. I love his writing style and it was a completely different style than &quot;Mystic River&quot; which was another one of his books that I liked..But that says a lot about an author to go through so many...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51297169">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading this book. It is by the same author who wrote &quot;Gone Baby, Gone&quot;. There is alot of good humor, but because I hadnt read the first books of the series there are alot of references to past events that I did not get. Also, the descriptions of the characters are basically none...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76136774">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Stripped of the deep Boston locales and psycho sidekicks, this episode is one of the weakest in the series.  Instead of crawling through their usual low-life bars in Southie, Patrick and Angie waste their time canvassing Florida motels and car rental agencies.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another good thriller by Lehane. Private investigators Kenzie and Gennaro are back at work finding a billionaire's missing daughter. The plot twists are clever, but I did find the &quot;secret code&quot; a bit too convenient and unrealistic. Otherwise, a solid mystery.]]></body>
    
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