Sam's review
Gone, Baby, Gone
by Dennis Lehane
Sam's review
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
Sam's review
rating:
bookshelves:
mystery-detective-crime
I picked this up at the airport last week only because I had name recognition from seeing Ben Afleck promoting his movie adaptation of it on Leno the night before and there wasn't anything else that caught my interest.
"The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro dont want the case. But after pleas from the childs aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything—their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives—to find a little girl-lost."
I was pleasently surprized by this book. Since I became a mother books about child kidnapping have made me uncomfortable but as I got into the book I enjoyed the characters and the twists, I didn't alway see them coming. This is just one book i...more
"The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro dont want the case. But after pleas from the childs aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything—their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives—to find a little girl-lost."
I was pleasently surprized by this book. Since I became a mother books about child kidnapping have made me uncomfortable but as I got into the book I enjoyed the characters and the twists, I didn't alway see them coming. This is just one book i...more
