Dennis Lehane

Vuelve Dennis Lehane con una novela a la altura de Mystic River. Una novela tan estimulante, cautivadora y arrebatadora que es imposible dejarla.Stephen King Boston, verano de 1974. Una noche, Jules, la hija adolescente de Mary Pat, se queda fuera hasta tarde y no vuelve a casa. Esa misma noche, un joven negro aparece muerto, arrollado por un tren en misteriosas circunstancias. Los dos sucesos parecen no tener relacion, pero Mary Pat, impulsada por la desesperada busqueda de su hija, empieza a hacer preguntas que molestan a Marty Butler, jefe de la mafia irlandesa, y a los hombres que trabajan para el. Ambientada en los calurosos y tumultuosos meses en los que la desegregacion de las escuelas publicas de la ciudad estallo en violencia, Golpe de gracia es un magnifico thriller, una brutal descripcion de la criminalidad y el poder, y un retrato inquebrantable del oscuro corazon del racismo americano.Reseñas:Una narracion absorbente; un retrato de personajes profundos; una novela fascinante que esperemos que no sea la ultima, como ha declarado Dennis Lehane. El Cultural Una historia brutal sobre racismo, droga, manipulacion, los excesos del poder y el escudo de la familia. El Norte de CastilloUna novela tan estimulante, cautivadora y arrebatadora que es imposible dejarla.Stephen King Una novela que te deja con la boca abierta. [...] Uno de los mejores escritores del panorama actual.Gillian Flynn Una historia oscura, que el lector no olvidara.James Lee Burke Dennis Lehane nunca ha resultado mas sincero, mas desgarrador, mas esencial. [...] Uno de esos libros que no puedes dejar de leer y cuyos oscuros resplandores te acompañaran durante muchisimo tiempo.Junot Diaz Lehane en estado puro. Un libro bello, brutal, lirico y despiadadamente honesto. No hay que perderselo.S. A. Cosby Desgarradora e inolvidable.Jacqueline WoodsonUn misterio explosivo.Kirkus Reviews El secreto del exito de Dennis Lehane es su capacidad para abordar cada nueva historia como si fuera la ultima.Publishers Weekly Una gran novela sobre el racismo, la violencia y la venganza paterna.Library JournalLa mejor obra de Lehane hasta la fecha.Booklist Lehane ha dicho que su trabajo siempre trata sobre la esperanza, sin importar lo oscuros que puedan ser sus argumentos, y la calidad brilla a lo largo de toda esta novela ambiciosa y de multiples capas.Financial TimesLehane se ha consolidado como uno de los mejores escritores de novela negra de Estados Unidos.Reader's Digest

Una de las obras más impactantes de Dennis Lehane de nuevo disponible en castellano «Una novela brillantemente concebida y ejecutada.»The Washington Post Septiembre de 1954. En un islote llamado Shu

Dennis Lehane is the author of nine novels including the New York Times bestsellers Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day. He and his family divide their time between Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida. Before becoming a full-time writer, Mr. Lehane worked as a counselor with mentally handicapped and abused children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers. His one regret is that no one ever gave him a chance to tend bar.

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The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a cover scheme of funelling cash to local gangsters -- ''money drops'' -- in the underworld of Boston bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood''s past where friends, families and foes all work together to make a living -- no matter the cost.A moving, gripping thriller, from Dennie Lehane, acclaimed New York Times bestselling autor of Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and Mystic River, The Drop will stay with you long after you turn the last page.

En pleine Prohibition, Joe, le dernier fils du capitaine de la police de Boston Thomas Coughlin, est décidé à se faire une place dans la pègre. Il braque le bar clandestin d'un caïd local et commet l

From Gone, Baby, Gone to Mystic River to Shutter Island to The Given Day, the phenomenal Dennis Lehane has proven himself to be one of the most versatile and exciting novelists working in America today—whether he’s breaking new ground with uniquely inventive psychological suspense, redefining the detective story, or bringing a bygone era to life with sweeping and masterful historical fiction. He’s back with Live by Night, an epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties. 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).

I LOVED YOUI HATED YOUI NEVER KNEW YOU...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?

Set at the end of the Great War, "The Given Day" offers an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpr

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. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brought up by the world's worst mother, neglected throughout her childhood, she has nonetheless blossomed into a formidably intelligent young woman. A young woman so bright that she can seemingly out-think and out-manoeuvre anyone...For Patrick, the case leads him down Boston's darkest, most dangerous streets ? and into a world of shocking secrets that will threaten not only Amanda's life, but also his own and that of his partner Angie Gennaro.

A Boston en 1926, Joe, le plus jeune fils du capitaine Coughlin, veut entrer dans le milieu de la pègre. Il commet l'erreur de séduire la maîtresse du parrain local et se retrouve en prison. Il y fai

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe''s journey to becoming one of the nation''s most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America...A powerful, deeply moving novel, Live By Night is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.

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". It also includes the full text of the acclaimed play "Coronado". Infused with the compelling narrative drive, piercing insight, and psychological drama that have made his novels bestsellers, "Coronado" is sure to satisfy this acclaimed writer's devoted following while they eagerly await his next novel.

Kenzie and Gennaro have been hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her home without leaving a trace. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation, the police inquiry has so far uncovered nothing. The case is rife with oddities: Amanda's strangely indifferent mother and her dangerous, drug-addled friends; her loving aunt and uncle; and two cops who have found so many abused or dead children they may already be over the edge.As the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone - banished so completely that she seems never to have existed. And when a second child disappears, Kenzie and Gennaro face a local media more interested in sensationalizing the abductions than helping to solve them, a police force seething with lethal secrets, and a faceless power determined to obstruct their efforts. Caught in a deadly tangle of lies and betrayal, they must confront the horror of what the world can inflict on its children in order to unravel a riddle that's anything but child's play.