Resultaten voor 'dennis lehane'
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Ayrilan Yollar
Small Mercies düsündürücü, ilgi cekici, öfkelendirici ve elinizden birakamayacaginiz bir eglence. SStephen King... Cok satan Lehanein bu üstün suc dramasi, Güney Bostondaki köklü irkciligi arastiriyor. S Publishers Weekly1974 yazi, Bostonu sicak bir dalgayla sararken, Mary Pat Fennessy faturalarini ödeme mücadelesi veriyordu. Bu esnada Southie adi verilen Irlanda Amerikan mahallesinde yasayan Mary Pat, geleneklere bagli ve özgün bir toplulugun parcasiydi.Bir gece, kizi Jules gec saatlere kadar eve dönmezken, gizemli bir ölüm olayi mahalleyi sarsar. Ilk bakista baglantili gibi görünmeyen bu iki olay, Mary Patin kayip kizini bulma cabasini tetikler.Kentteki irk ayriminin siddetle patladigi bu dönemde gecen Ayrilan Yollar, sadece bir gerilim romani degil, ayni zamanda suc ve güc iliskilerinin vahsi bir portresi ve Amerikan irkciliginin karanlik yüzünün cesurca tasviri olarak öne cikiyor. Dennis Lehanein kaleminden cikan bu etkileyici eser, sizi icine cekecek ve sarsacak bir basyapittir.
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Sekunden der Gnade
Boston, 1974. Die Stadt kocht. Künftig sollen schwarze Kinder mit Bussen in weiße Schulen gebracht werden und vice versa. Angst geht um und Hass. Eines Nachts kehrt Mary Pat Fennessys 17-jährige Tochter Jules nicht nach Hause zurück. Mary Pat beginnt Fragen zu stellen, stößt auf Schweigen und Widersprüche, bis sie versteht: Man hat ihr das Letzte genommen, was ihr in dieser Welt Halt gab. Außer sich vor Schmerz macht sie sich auf, um Rache zu nehmen an den Verantwortlichen - und um ihre eigene Schuld abzutragen. Um jeden Preis.
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Dunkelheit nimm meine Hand
Die renommierte Bostoner Psychologin Diandra Warren lebt in Angst. Man hat gedroht, ihrem Sohn etwas anzutun. Die Drohung trägt die Handschrift der Mafia - nur hat die mit der Sache nachweislich nichts zu tun. Als Kenzie & Gennaro zu ermitteln beginnen, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse; ein Mord nach dem anderen geschieht. Alle Spuren führen zu einem Serienkiller, der seit Jahren im Gefängnis sitzt - und tief in Patrick Kenzies eigene Vergangenheit.
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The Given Day
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Small Mercies
A Times and Sunday Times Thriller of the MonthIn the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of 'Southie', the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched - asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don't take kindly to any threat to their business. 'Top-notch dialogue, an absorbing mystery and an evocation of a historical moment foreshadowing America's 21st-century ethnic divide' Sunday Times'Mary Pat Fennessy might be Dennis Lehane's single greatest creation' Irish Times 'Brutal, thrilling and relentlessly clear-eyed' Mail on Sunday
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Small Mercies
?Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations.? ?Gillian Flynn ?One of the great diabolical thriller kings.??New York Times ?Lehane has built a career as a philosopher of the human animal.??Noah Hawley The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River?an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston's history. In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of ?Southie,? the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched?asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don't take kindly to any threat to their business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city's desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.
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Kalt wie dein Herz
Eine Frau springt in den Tod. Karen Nichols war jung, erfolgreich und bis vor Kurzem noch Patrick Kenzies Klientin. Ein harmloser Fall von Stalking, um den Kenzie nur wenig Aufhebens machte. Nun packt ihn das schlechte Gewissen, denn vielleicht hätte er Karens Tod verhindern können, hätte er sorgfältiger ermittelt. Doch sein Gegner ist ein genialer Psychopath, der selbst Kenzie das Fürchten lehrt. In der Neuübersetzung von Peter Torberg.
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Sacred
A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money… Enter tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all – and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory: a place of lies and corruption, where trusting anyone could get them killed, and where nothing is sacred. Another superior thriller from Dennis Lehane, the bestselling and acclaimed author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone, Baby, Gone.
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Live by Night
“A meticulously crafted portrait of our violent national past.”—Washington Post Book World Nowavailable with a contemporary look, New York Times bestselling authorDennis Lehane’s epic, unflinching tale of Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties,and one man’s rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast’s most successfulrum runner. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominentBoston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and properupbringing, and enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw.But life on the dark side carries a heavy price, and one fate seems most likelyfor men like Joe: an early death. Until that day, he and his friends aredetermined to live life to the hilt. Joeembarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes himfrom the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's LatinQuarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Liveby Night is a riveting epiclayered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, toughrumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruelKlansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. Atonce a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is aspellbinding tour de force that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin wascause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.
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A Drink Before the War
The mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester. In this gripping private investigator series debut, a cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find a missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about justice, about right and wrong. But in this Boston crime thriller, finding the truth isn’t just a dirty business . . . it’s deadly.
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Darkness, Take My Hand
When Detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist they soon find bodies are piling up around them. What's more, all the clues point to an unlikely suspect - a serial killer who has been in prison for twenty years, so he can't be killing again, can he? As the duo try to find out what kind of human being could perform such horrifying acts of mutilation, torture and dismemberment, they discover that the killer's motive is disturbingly rooted in their own past. In a series of heart-stopping climaxes that grow ever more bloody, ever more terrifying, the two detectives work frantically to capture the killer before they become victims themselves.
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Gone, Baby, Gone
In this “absolutely gripping”(Chicago Tribune) thriller, New York Times bestselling authorDennis Lehane vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-classBoston. The tough neighborhood ofDorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. Its territory is definedby hard heads and even harder luck; its streets are littered with the detritusof broken families, hearts, and dreams. Now one of its youngest ismissing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don’t want thecase. But after pleas from the child’s aunt, they open an investigation thatwill ultimately risk everything—their relationship, their sanity, and eventheir lives—to find a little girl lost.
€ 16,50