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A dark and atmospheric new novel from the critically acclaimed author of "Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone" and many others, who also wrote for TV series "The Wire". Joe Coughlin is one of America's most feared and prominent gangsters, but success can't protect him from the truth of his past. 'The best gangster novel since "The Godfather".' Stephen King

Die US-Marshalls Daniels und Aule sollen im Fall einer Kindsmörderin ermitteln, die von der Gefängnisinsel Shutter Island geflohen ist. Als sie dort ankommen, erhalten sie verschlüsselte Botschaften, die sie immer tiefer in den düsteren Bau und die Machenschaften der Ärzte führen. Nichts ist so, wie es scheint.Dennis Lehanes raffiniert komponiertes Meisterwerk um Wahn und Angst in neuer Übersetzung.

Amerika, 1943: Nach dem Tod seiner Frau lebt Joe Coughlin mit seinem Sohn Tomás zurückgezogen, die Zeit offener Mafiagewalt und der Prohibition ist vorbei, die alten Geschichten nur mehr Legenden. Joe ist einer der größten Investoren und Arbeitgeber in der Gegend, er spendet an karitative Einrichtungen, führt ein reputierliches Unternehmen, ist gerngesehener Gast bei Politikern und städtischen Honoratioren, und wenn er zu einer Party einlädt, ...

Senator Brian Paulson will die Bandenkriminalität in Boston stoppen. Als seine Putzfrau Jenna ein Foto von ihm und einem Gangsterboss entwendet, geraten die Dinge außer Kontrolle. Das Detektivduo Kenzie und Gennaro soll ermitteln und befindet sich plötzlich im Straßenkrieg. Das großartige, rauhe Debüt von Bestsellerautor Dennis Lehane in neuer Übersetzung.

Joe Coughlin, geachteter Bürger von Tampa, Florida, und Consigliere des Bartolo-Syndikats, hat seine kriminelle Vergangenheit hinter sich gelassen wie Amerika die Prohibition. Bis eines Tages aus heiterem Himmel ein Kopfgeld auf ihn ausgesetzt wird und auf dem Spiel steht, was ihm am wichtigsten ist: sein Sohn - und der einzige Freund, den er hat. Die atemlose Geschichte von >In der Nacht< geht weiter.

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 Vergange...

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 ...

Dennis Lehane writes his best book yet with this propulsive and searing novel of psychological drama and suspense. Think MYSTIC RIVER meets GONE GIRL.

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The stunning new novel from one of the world's most critically-acclaimed and revered crime writers

After a very public mental breakdown, Rachel Childs, once a tenacious, globe-trotting journalist, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel’smarriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength ...

Dennis Lehane's stunning novel Live By Night is now a major film, produced, directed and starring Ben Affleck - due for release in January 2017

Now a major motion picture directed by Ben Affleck.Boston, 1926. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent police captain, has graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city’s most fearsome mobsters. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. Beyond money and power, even the threat of p...

Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world.Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career...

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. And now Amanda is sixteen and gone again.

The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel.A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all—...

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Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old.

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Dennis Lehane returns to coedit the sequel to the best-selling evergreen anthology Boston Noir.