Prayers for Rain (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels) Feature
- ISBN13: 9780380730360
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Prayers for Rain (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels) Overview
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Boston’s gritty blue-collar streets.
Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within six months, jump naked from a Boston landmark -- the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction. What he finds is a sadistic stalker who targeted the young woman and methodically drove her to her death. A monster the law can’t touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against this psychopath even as he turns his tricks on them.
Prayers for Rain (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels) Specifications
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
Customer Reviews
[SPOILER] My only criticism of the prayer for the rain had stopped too clean. I did not mind that the villain would have followed the whole story turned out to be under the control of another. What I mean that this aspect is not fully developed. What it was apparently weak and ineffective Wesley, who allowed him Spirit control of Scott and Diane to win? What has been very Diane anyway? - Money? Sex? Same question for Scott. And what was going to stop the killing of his parents by Wesleysoon? Fear of Patrick wheels? With the talent shown to underground Wesley remaining (both figuratively and literally) for years, the fear that is not really reasonable.
Since I just wrote above, I think that many readers of this genus known so that we can be too demanding and very easy to read to impress. I will end with a very positive note. Dennis Lehane is an excellent writer. Unlike his talent for creating an authentic sense of place - in this caseBoston's Back Bay - something I admire, is not to give his all too common cliché of crime / mystery / detective books, films, etc.: hostility and distrust between the police and private investigators. In general, the IP address of the police as just one step away from criminals treated Lehane Patrick Kenzie actually some very good friends on the force, and here he is in a position to a working relationship with a policeman working on one aspect of his case to develop.
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