Here I am back at Dennis Lehane and his protagonists of this series, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, for the first time in a while.

This book pulled me right in and I didn't want to put it down after I started it.

A "blonde and petite" woman named Karen Nichols hires Patrick because she's being harassed by some scumbag. No sooner than Patrick thinks he's got the bully scared off, Karen jumps to her death from a huge Boston landmark.

Patrick wants to know why and the meat of the novel begins...

This one was definitely a step up for me in the Kenzie/Gennaro series. As I said, it was hard to put down and Lehane gets away from the "missing persons" plot he's used already a couple of times in the series.

Fans of Lehane and the series will get pretty much what they've come to expect in a good, solid, neo-noir mystery and this one's a real page-turner, in my opinion.