The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, and dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything-their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives, to find a little girl lost. Description in Spanish: 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 periodÃstica y de una tenaz investigación, las indagaciones de la policÃa 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 polÃtica de desinformación del departamento de policÃa, a unos medios de comunicación local sensacionalistas y a un poder sin rostro empeñado en dificultar todos sus esfuerzos.
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Dennis Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He is the author of A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; and the New York Times bestsellers Mystic River and Shutter Island.
Mystic River was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won both the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, as well as the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction given by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Coronado, a collection of five stories and a play, was published in the fall of 2006 and includes the story "Until Gwen," which was adapted for the stage.
Lehane's work has been translated into 22 languages. He holds an MFA from Florida International University and is the writer-in-residence at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he runs the Writers in Paradise writers' conference. Before becoming a full-time writer, Lehane worked as a counselor with mentally handicapped and abused children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers. He lives in the Boston area.
