![]() ![]() ![]() Lehane's sense of place is acute, and his ear is finely attuned to the voices of Boston's many neighborhoods, as Patrick and Angie trace Karen's downward spiral, from the exclusive, cobbled streets of Beacon Hill to the wharves and bars of the North End. He doesn't believe in coincidences and needs Angie's help to uncover a killer whose methods seem to put him beyond the law-one who makes his victims do the work, by manipulating their minds and lives until suicide seems a plausible alternative. Everyone, including the police-and Karen's strangely unsympathetic family-chalks it up to a streak of extraordinarily bad luck, but Patrick is suspicious. It turns out that everything that could go wrong with her life did-all at the same time. Which no one gets, because six months later the woman dives to her death off the Custom House tower. Patrick and Bubba are glad to take care of the stalker-in an extremely satisfying way-and everybody expects a happy ending. Enter Karen Nichols, a nice, hard-working sort who's being stalked. Estranged from Angie personally and professionally, Patrick works the old Boston neighborhood-with the occasional help of his loyal and happily homicidal pal Bubba Rogowski-while Angie has moved uptown to a blue-chip corporate security firm. After the shattering consequences of their last case (Gone, Baby, Gone), Lehane's PI partners Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are back, but not together. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |