Prayers for Rain

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'DISCOVERING DENNIS LEHANE IS A BIT LIKE FINDING A MONDRIAN IN THE ATTIC: SURPRISE FOLLOWED BY ECSTASY' Mark Timiin, Independent on Sunday When Boston priváté investigator Patrick Kenzie meets Karén Nichols, she strikes him as an innocent from a protected upbringing, untouched by tragedy. But six months later when Karén takes her own life, Patrick is left wondering what can altér someone so drastically and so quickly that suicide seems her only option? Through the final weeks of a stifling summer, and with the help of his ex-partner, Angéla Gennaro, and his friend, the lethally unbalanced Búbba Rogowski, Patrick enters into psychological warfare with a brilliant sociopath who, instead of merely killing his victims, prefers to make them wish they were dead. Their game of cat-and-mouse brings them face-toface with the sordid secrets of an affluent family, a brutal maíioso, a cabal of twisted kidnappers and a perilous encounter in the misty dark of a cranberry bog. As the stakes grow... Tovább

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'DISCOVERING DENNIS LEHANE IS A BIT LIKE FINDING A MONDRIAN IN THE ATTIC: SURPRISE FOLLOWED BY ECSTASY' Mark Timiin, Independent on Sunday When Boston priváté investigator Patrick Kenzie meets Karén Nichols, she strikes him as an innocent from a protected upbringing, untouched by tragedy. But six months later when Karén takes her own life, Patrick is left wondering what can altér someone so drastically and so quickly that suicide seems her only option? Through the final weeks of a stifling summer, and with the help of his ex-partner, Angéla Gennaro, and his friend, the lethally unbalanced Búbba Rogowski, Patrick enters into psychological warfare with a brilliant sociopath who, instead of merely killing his victims, prefers to make them wish they were dead. Their game of cat-and-mouse brings them face-toface with the sordid secrets of an affluent family, a brutal maíioso, a cabal of twisted kidnappers and a perilous encounter in the misty dark of a cranberry bog. As the stakes grow higher and more personal, they find themselves fighting a losing battle with an enemy the law can't touch, who is always one step ahead, who is gradually discovering their weaknesses, their loves, and is determined to tear their world apart. 'CRACKLES ALONG AT AN ELECTRIC PACE, PACKED WITH FALSÉ LEADS, SUDDEN BURSTS OF VIOLENCE AND ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER, RIGHT TO THE VERY LAST PAGE. FANTASTIC' Michael Donlevy, Maxim Vissza