A review by cphenly
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

4.0

I started the Kenzie and Gennaro series with the last one (#6) because someone gave it to me, and I knew nothing about Lehane's work, so I didn't realize it was one of a series. I liked the first one I read very much (#6), so I started at #1 and have been working my way through them. I have enjoyed all of them, though none as much as #6, The Moonlight Mile. Turns out, this one is the story for which that one serves as a sequel, 12 years later. Perhaps coincidentally, I liked this one as much as I liked that one. Lehane's characters are interesting and complex, but they also tend to be quite violent and even the "heroes" behave in immoral ways sometimes, so these are not my favorite mystery books, but they are entertaining and the plotting is good enough to keep me reading. This book, I would like to add, ultimately raises (but does not answer) a very interesting question about what it means to do the right thing.