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Live by Night

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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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Shutter Island

This New York Times bestseller is an arresting psychological thriller in which two U.S. Marshals hunting for an escaped mental patient unveil a nightmare world of CIA drug trials, Nazi inspired eugenic work, and repressive mind control. In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, having vanished from a locked, guarded cell in an impossible locked room mystery. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because in this hospital steeped in gothic atmosphere, nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems…

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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.

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Mystic River

This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. When they were children, SeanDevine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange carpulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and somethingterrible happened—something that ended their friendship and changed all threeboys forever.Twenty-five years later, Seanis a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Daveis trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay —demons thaturge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy’s daughter is found murdered, Seanis assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy,who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutaljustice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy’s daughter diedcovered in someone else’s blood.A tense and unnerving psychologicalthriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faithand family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on acollision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves. 

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The Given Day

"Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."—New York Times Nowavailable with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of Americanhistory, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacularfamily epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between awell-patterned past and an unpredictable future from acclaimed, New YorkTimes bestselling author Dennis Lehane DennisLehane’s beautifully written novel tells the story of two families—one black,one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrantsand ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle forsurvival and power at the end of World War I. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch, itexplores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country atwar with, and in the thrall of, itself.