Shruts's review of Gone, Baby, Gone
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
I'm so bummed because I thought I wrote a pretty good review earlier but it didn't get saved! Try again
There are two mystery writers focused on Boston, PArker and Lehane. Parker's Spenser is the wise-cracking one living in posh Back-Bay. Lehane's Kenzie and Gennaro private eye team live in the squalor of Dorchester and Southie. They inhabit the Boston world of crooked cops, crumbling tenements, seedy bars and creepy drug dealers that tourists never see (or should want to see except on 2-dimensional pages or silver screen). Lehane reminds us that sometimes bad things happen to good people, but even worse, vice versa.
This is not Lehane's blockbuster "Mystic River" but I say GET THIS BOOK. Yes, it's coarse, raw, and deals with severely uncomfortable themes. But what do you want, Dr. Suess?
There are two mystery writers focused on Boston, PArker and Lehane. Parker's Spenser is the wise-cracking one living in posh Back-Bay. Lehane's Kenzie and Gennaro private eye team live in the squalor of Dorchester and Southie. They inhabit the Boston world of crooked cops, crumbling tenements, seedy bars and creepy drug dealers that tourists never see (or should want to see except on 2-dimensional pages or silver screen). Lehane reminds us that sometimes bad things happen to good people, but even worse, vice versa.
This is not Lehane's blockbuster "Mystic River" but I say GET THIS BOOK. Yes, it's coarse, raw, and deals with severely uncomfortable themes. But what do you want, Dr. Suess?
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