Dennis Lehane Libros

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. Los investigadores privados Patrick Kenzie y Angela Gennaro son contratados para encontrar a la pequeña Amanda, secuestrada de su casa en Boston. A pesar de la amplia cobertura periodística y de una tenaz investigación, las indagaciones de la policía no han dado ningún fruto. El verano ha llegado a su fin y la pequeña sigue sin aparecer; ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Es entonces cuando un segundo niño también desaparece.Kenzie y Gennaro -atrapados en una mortal maraña de mentiras, pero dispuestos a destapar el caso -, pronto descubren que la búsqueda puede conducirlos a un camino sin retorno. Se enfrentan a la política de "desinformación" del departamento de policía, a unos medios de comunicación local sensacionalistas y a un poder sin rostro empeñado en dificultar todos sus esfuerzos.

"الجزيرة المغلقة" هي رواية متميزة للكاتب الأميركي "دينيس ليهان"، الذي يُعتبر من أبرز الروائيين في القرن العشرين. تدور أحداث القصة عام 1954، حيث يقوم المارشال الأميركي "تيدي كابريو" وشريكه "تشاك" بالتحقيق في اختفاء مريضة من مستشفى للأمراض العقلية يقع على جزيرة نائية تُعد من أسوأ الأماكن في العالم. مع تقدم التحقيق، يكتشف المحققان أن القضية أكثر تعقيداً مما يبدو، حيث يواجهان صعوبات في الوصول إلى المعلومات بسبب عدم تعاون مدير المستشفى. تتعقد الأمور أكثر عندما يختفي أحد رجال الشرطة في ظروف غامضة خلال عاصفة بحرية، مما يزيد من مخاوف شريكه. تتضمن الرواية مجموعة من الشخصيات المعقدة، من القتلة والمغتصبين، وتعرض قدرة "ليهان" على استكشاف الجوانب المظلمة للنفس البشرية من خلال حوارات عميقة ومؤثرة. يخلق الكاتب جواً من التشويق والغموض، مما يجعل القارئ مشدوداً حتى النهاية. تتناول الرواية أيضاً تساؤلات حول الأخلاقيات في العلوم، حيث يُظهر الطبيب أن التجارب على البشر قد تكون جزءًا من محاولة المساعدة، مما يثير قضايا حول الحضارة والعنف الكامن في النفس البشرية. تحمل الرواية مفاجآت عديدة وتكشف عن تناقضات المجتمع المتحضر، مما يجعلها تجربة قراءة مثيرة ومؤثرة.

Antes de que la adaptación cinematográfica de Mystic River lo lanzara a la fama, Dennis Lehane ya era un autor destacado del género negro gracias a los detectives bostonianos Patrick Kenzie y Angela Gennaro. En la última década, su talento para crear historias de gran tensión y complejidad psicológica le ha valido numerosos premios y ha inspirado a Hollywood, consolidándose con series como «The Wire» y «Boardwalk Empire». Actualmente, no hay escritor que retrate con mayor verosimilitud el mundo de los gángsters en Estados Unidos durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Esta electrizante novela, que cierra la trilogía de Cualquier otro día y Vivir de noche, es un claro ejemplo. Joe Coughlin, padre de un niño de diez años al que adora, ha logrado distanciarse de su turbulento pasado, aunque aún actúa como consejero del clan mafioso de los Bartolo. Su vida tranquila se ve interrumpida por la aparición del fantasma de un chico familiar y, más alarmante, la noticia de que alguien ha puesto precio a su cabeza y planea matarlo durante el Miércoles de Ceniza. Entre su mediación entre clanes mafiosos en conflicto y la búsqueda de su atacante, Joe se verá arrastrado a un pasado lleno de traiciones y venganzas, donde cada día podría ser el último. Tal vez ha llegado el momento de pagar por sus pecados.

Los hilos de nuestras vidas se entrelazan, afectando todo a nuestro alrededor. De niños, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus y Dave Boyle fueron amigos hasta que un extraño coche se detuvo en su calle. Un niño se subió, los otros dos no, lo que llevó a un trágico evento que destrozó su amistad y alteró sus vidas para siempre. Veinticinco años después, Sean es un detective de homicidios, Jimmy es un exconvicto que dirige una tienda de esquina, y Dave lucha por mantener su matrimonio mientras batalla con demonios internos. Cuando la hija de Jimmy es encontrada asesinada, Sean recibe el caso, obligándolo a confrontar tanto la violencia presente como los recuerdos inquietantes de su pasado. Su investigación lo enfrenta a Jimmy, cuyos viejos instintos criminales lo tientan hacia una justicia brutal. Mientras tanto, Dave regresa a casa la noche del asesinato cubierto de sangre, lo que suscita sospechas sobre su implicación. Este tenso thriller psicológico explora temas de amor, lealtad, fe y el impacto del pasado, mientras los personajes enfrentan sus verdades más oscuras.

Dennis Lehane's masterpiece of mystery and suspense--brought to life for the first time as a graphic novel. In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island to find a mass murderer who has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like federal institution for the criminally insane. As an intense hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, the marshals are forced to piece together clues to a shocking puzzle hidden within Shutter Island, taking them on a dark, twisted journey, where paranoia assumes an air of cool rationality and the line between sanity and madness disappears... Filled with his trademark grit, insight, and pathos, "Shutter Island" is vintage Dennis Lehane. Now adapted for the first time as a graphic novel by internationally renowned artist Christian De Metter, this riveting story brilliantly captures our capacity for depravity and deliverance.

Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand , a terrifying tale of redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate. But an evil for which even they are unprepared is about to strike, as secrets that have long lain dormant erupt, setting off a chain of violent murders that will stain everything – including the truth. With razor-sharp dialogue and penetrating prose, Darkness, Take My Hand is another superior crime novel from the author of Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone; and Shutter Island .

Thought-provoking and gripping, this novel offers an unflinching exploration of revenge, family love, and insidious power, set against a tumultuous period in Boston's history. In the summer of 1974, Mary Pat Fennessey struggles to keep ahead of bill collectors while living in the Southie housing projects. When her teenage daughter, Jules, goes missing on the same night a young Black man is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Mary Pat's desperate search leads her to uncover unsettling truths. Her inquiries disturb Marty Butler, the Irish mob's chieftain, and his men, who are fiercely protective of their interests. As Mary Pat navigates the dangerous underbelly of her community, the story delves into the violent realities of the city's desegregation efforts and the pervasive nature of American racism. This narrative is a gripping thriller that masterfully intertwines personal and societal struggles, revealing the harsh truths that lie beneath the surface of a seemingly ordinary life.

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But despite these problems, IPrayers for Rain/I brings them together again to close down a predator whose Imodus operandi/I seems to put him beyond the law. This killer's insidious murder weapon is within his victims' minds: no smoking gun, no bloody knife, just merciless manipulation until despair drives his targets to kill themselves. As Patrick and Angie attempt to identify and save his next victim, this sinister force turns on them and thus begins a dangerous battle of wits: a tormenting, life-threatening game of psychological warfare in which simple survival seems a mixed blessing - because not even the winner will emerge unscathed.

Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro try to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist in the midst of an ever-growing body count and a list of clues that point impossibly to a serial killer who has been in prison for twenty years.

Danny Coughlin is Boston Police Department royalty and the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains. His beat is the predominately Italian neighbourhoods of the North End where political dissent is in the air - fresh and intoxicating. On the hunt for hard-line radicals as a favour to his father, Danny is drawn into the ideological fray and finds his loyalties compromised as the police department itself becomes swept up in potentially violent labour strife. Luther Lawrence is on the run. A suspect in a nightclub shooting in Oklahoma, he flees to Boston, leaving his wife behind. He lands a job in the Coughlin household and meets Danny and the family's Irish maid, Nora, who once had a powerful bond. As the mystery of their relationship unravels, Luther finds himself befriending them both even as the turmoil in his own life threatens to overwhelm him. Desperate to return to his wife and child, he must confront the past that has followed him and settle scores with enemies old and new. Set at the end of the Great War, The Given Day is meticulously researched and expertly plotted, it will transport you to an unforgettable time and place.

Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini. Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets a damaged woman looking for something to believe in. As their relationship grows, they cross paths with the Chechen mafia; a man grown dangerous with age and thwarted hopes; two hapless stick-up artists; a very curious cop; and the original owner of the puppy, who wants his dog back. . . .

From New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller. Meticulously researched and artfully told, Live by Night is the riveting story of one man’s rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast’s most successful rum runner, and it proves again that the accolades New York Times bestseller Lehane consistently receives are well deserved. He is indeed, “a master” (Philadelphia Inquirer) whose “true literary forefathers include John Steinbeck as well as Raymond Chandler” (Baltimore Sun). And, “Boy, does he know how to write” (Elmore Leonard).

In Your First Novel , novelist Laura Whitcomb and seasoned literary agent Ann Rittenberg team up to provide you with the skills you need to write your dream novel and the savvy business know-how to get it published. In this all-in-one resource, you'll discover essential novel-writing techniques, such • How to best structure your research so that you can save time later • How to card your story before you start writing • What to consider when developing your cast of characters • How to adapt classic story structures to fit your own ideas…and insider information on what it takes to get published, • What agents do at those three-hour power lunches—and how it affects you • What makes an agent instantly reject a manuscript • How to correctly translate submission guidelines • What happens if you get multiple offers—or no offers at allPlus, learn about the publishing process from the firsthand accounts of such noted authors as Dennis Lehane, Kathryn Harrison, Jim Fusilli, Kathleen George, and others!

A cadre of powerful Massachusetts politicians offers Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro big money for a small job: find the missing cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential Statehouse documents. But there's much more to this crime than anyone realizes. What the woman was really after was justice--and out on the Boston streets, the truth can turn stark and ugly.

A dying billionaire hires private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to retrieve his beautiful, grieving daughter from an exploitative cult, luring them into a world of ubiquitous deception and danger. Reprint.

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find her—only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and broken home. Twelve years later, Amanda, now sixteen, is gone again. The disappearance of little Amanda was the case that troubled Kenzie and Gennaro more than any other. Still haunted by their consciences, they must now revisit the nightmare that once tore them apart—following the trail of a lost teenager into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, and Russian gangsters, right up to the doorstep of a dangerously unstable crime boss and his demented wife. Once again Patrick and Angie will be putting everything that matters to them on the line in pursuit of the answer to the burning question: Is it possible to do the right thing and still be dead wrong?

A corrupt African colonel has smuggled diamonds to Manhattan, prompting four citizens to plan a heist to reclaim their nation's wealth. They enlist Parker, a skilled specialist, who faces pressure from both his girlfriend's expectations and threats from hired goons. Will he break his rule against amateurs to help them?

Rachel's husband adores her. When she hit rock bottom, he was there with her every step of the way as she slowly regained her confidence, and her sanity. But his mysterious behaviour forces her to probe for the truth about her beloved husband. How can she feel certain that she ever knew him? And was she right to ever trust him?

Though best known for his hugely successful novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of the short story. This collection, his first to be published in the UK, includes the story 'Running out of Dog' which was featured in THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2005 and THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF THE CENTURY.

There was only ever one candidate for the job of assembling Boston Noir: Dennis Lehane!

In un quartiere periferico di Boston, Sean, Jimmy e Dave fanno a botte in mezzo alla strada. Una macchina accosta. A bordo due uomini. Dave sale con loro. E scompare. Per quattro, terribili giorni. Venticinque anni dopo, Dave è accusato di omicidio. La vittima è la figlia di Jimmy. E Sean è l'agente incaricato delle indagini. Per loro è giunto il momento di fare i conti con il passato, e con l'agghiacciante episodio che ha sfregiato le loro anime.

Svazek obsahuje zkrácené verze čtyř úspěšných anglických a amerických románů různých žánrů v českém překladu. / Pompeje - Robert Harris /Horká linka - Michael Connelly / Letní svit - Luanne Riceová / V pasti - Dennis Lehane

Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most thrilling mystery yet. The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat's most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD. But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who's not a cop. Reporter Jameson Rook. In the midst of New York's coldest winter in a hundred years, there's one thing Nikki is determined to prove: Heat Rises.

Een privé-detective zoekt samen met zijn vrienden tijdens een snikhete zomer in Boston een sociopaat die ervan geniet mensen langzaam kapot te maken.

De privé-detectives Kenzie en Gennaro gaan met hulp van een veroordeelde drugshandelaar in Boston op zoek naar een ontvoerd vierjarig meisje.

Patrick Kenzie und Angela Gennaro sind verheiratet und Eltern einer vierjährigen Tochter. Vier Jahre alt war auch Amanda McCready, als sie entführt und schließlich von Angela und Patrick wiedergefunden wurde. Nun ist Amanda ein Teenager und erneut verschwunden. Ein weiteres Mal macht sich Patrick auf die Suche nach ihr. Doch in welche Abgründe ihn diese Suche führen wird, kann nicht einmal ein abgeklärter Ermittler wie Patrick Kenzie erahnen.

1918. L'agent Danny Coughlin, fils aîné de Thomas Coughlin, légendaire capitaine de la police de Boston, est chargé d'une mission spéciale par son parrain, le retors lieutenant McKenna : infiltrer les milieux syndicaux et anarchistes. Dans cette ville où la révolte gronde, la grève des forces de police va mettre le feu aux poudres. 1926. En pleine prohibition, l'alcool coule à flots dans les speakeasies et Joe, le plus jeune fils de Thomas Coughlin, est bien décidé à se faire une place au sein de la pègre, parmi ceux qui vivent la nuit. 1943. Le monde est en guerre mais aux USA la mafia prospère. Après avoir régné sur le trafic d'alcool en Floride, Joe Coughlin a passé la main à son second Dion Bartolo. Mais un jour, il apprend qu'un contrat a été mis sur sa tête.