monty_reads 's review for:

Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

4.0

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I'm finally convinced that I need to read more Lehane, and I need to do so tout de suite. I've been really lazy with him so far, reading three of his books only after I'd already seen the movie adaptations (Mystic River, Shutter Island, and now Gone, Baby, Gone. I liked the first two well enough, but Gone, Baby, Gone is really something else: morally ambiguous and darkly funny with whip-smart dialogue tracing the evolution of a four-year-old girl's kidnapping. It's rough stuff, and the bleak ending offers no easy answers. This is the fourth book featuring the private detective team of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, and it's high time I read the other five.