<![CDATA[Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)]]>

false <![CDATA[Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167322951m/21683.jpg 21683 25 Prayers for Rain is Dennis Lehane's fifth installment in his intricately plotted, beautifully written, and much underacknowledged Boston mystery series. Lehane's books reflect our morally complex times, when the borders between right and wrong are somewhat blurry. 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 2812184 book 1999 Prayers for Rain (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels) total:1324|5:356|4:647|3:277|2:38|1:6| 1324 5281 1686 111 4 1 false false Sun Jul 27 16:16:58 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 16:26:18 -0700 2008
Prayer's For Rain isn't their best outing but you can't say the crew doesn't go out with a bang.

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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...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 11:34:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 09:42:53 -0700 2008
Lehane Overcomes Cliches
Anyone else this would be a standard, mediocre thriller--you have several cliched elements:
1. a psycho stalker who appears to have unlimited resources and how (it is never entirely explained why) is obse...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 27 11:46:50 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:50:45 -0700 2009 i like patrick and angela stories. they are too violent for my taste but i allow dennis to get away with it cause i know he has to put in the violence to sell his books. this novel was like a good action movie with interesting characters thrown in. MYSTIC RIVER gave dennis the intro to the m...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 09:25:59 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 09:32:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jun 24 16:42:51 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 17:25:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 26 17:18:05 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 17:25:37 -0700 2009 Gone Baby Gone and this one before I realized there was a specific order this series goes in (apparently I read number four and five, but I plan on reading 1-3 as soon as I can)
I love Lehane's grittiness, his characters with their real-life morals and the twists and turns I get taken on...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 09:40:56 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 12:49:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=21683