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Gone, Baby, Gone
by Dennis Lehane
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are private investigators hired to find a missing four-year-old girl, Amanda McCready. It seems like a fairly straightforward case, even as it seems almost impossible to solve. Nobody has seen the girl since she disappeared and there are some unsavory people who may or may not be involved. (Depending on the lead, it could be related to drugs or she could’ve been taken by pedophiles recently released from jail.)
I’d read this before (after seeing Mystic River, I read everything Dennis Lehane had written up to that point) but it was better than I remember. I decided to re-read it after getting an ARC of Moonlight Mile in the mail. (That book is not only a new Kenzie/Gennaro but is also a sequel to this one.)
I love Dennis Lehane’s novels because most of them are noir, and I LOVE noir. I also love the fact that there are moral dilemmas, because most of the time, the right thing to do is a shade of degree. Obviously, if Amanda has been kidnapped by pedophiles, the right thing to do is to get her away from them, no matter what it would cost. But if someone were, say, kidnapped from a neglectful family to be part of a loving one, what’s the right thing to do there? Kidnapping is wrong, of course, but what if it has a good result?
I’d read this before (after seeing Mystic River, I read everything Dennis Lehane had written up to that point) but it was better than I remember. I decided to re-read it after getting an ARC of Moonlight Mile in the mail. (That book is not only a new Kenzie/Gennaro but is also a sequel to this one.)
I love Dennis Lehane’s novels because most of them are noir, and I LOVE noir. I also love the fact that there are moral dilemmas, because most of the time, the right thing to do is a shade of degree. Obviously, if Amanda has been kidnapped by pedophiles, the right thing to do is to get her away from them, no matter what it would cost. But if someone were, say, kidnapped from a neglectful family to be part of a loving one, what’s the right thing to do there? Kidnapping is wrong, of course, but what if it has a good result?