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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/425123.Gone_Baby_Gone?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Gone, Baby, Gone" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1174627458m/425123.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/425123.Gone_Baby_Gone?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Gone, Baby, Gone</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10289.Dennis_Lehane">Dennis Lehane</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21728513?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>I read Mystic River some time back and loved it. Until the movie GBG came out I was unaware Lehane had written other stuff, especially a series. In fact, I was unaware that he'd written a series until I was about 50 pages into GBG. That was one of my first drawbacks; our two main characters have a chemistry and a way they work and I was jumping into the middle of it. It was like being with a couple who have an inside joke that gets them laughing hysterically and you're standing there with a dumb look on your face. I got over it, though. <br/>Lehane's sense of place here and in Mystic River is what, in my opinion, draws a reader in. I went looking online for info and pictures of the quarries because Lehane (in a page and a half) made them sound so surreal and beautiful. Very few authors take the time to do that any more. You wanna set a story in Boston? Sure, just make sure you mention Fenway and the Boston Market, you'll be covered. Lehane knows Boston, and it shows. Kudos. <br/>The other drawback was that I had one of the bad guys pegged from very early on. I did not know the why and the how, so I wasn't completely put off. I think I've read too many of these murder mystery books, that I've got them figured out. But they're still fun and I'm still going to keep reading them. :) <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/960496?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>