“I heard you were relentless,” he said as he stepped into the study. Stone, you said you’d heard we had the two qualities you were looking for most.” So, without further adieu (Meaning I asked first if the second was better, shut up) I tried the second book. It was a typical first book with intros type deal. But, the things they had to investigate bored me a tad and I wasn’t fully engrossed in the story-I didn’t get the obsession, is my point. But the story itself? I found it lacking-Not because it wasn’t well-written…it was. Once again, my perspective of prior events was reshaping, transmogrifying, reinventing itself until I felt increasingly stupid for ever trusting my initial instincts. So, when my friend said I’d love this, I tried it…but didn’t particularly fall for the first book. And, I’ll tell ya, it’s a long, drawn out process for me. And when you find it, your eyes light up and your heart goes into overdrive, and you feel lighter than air-You know that, without a doubt, this book will be perfect for you. It’s not because I don’t trust my friends…it’s more than that. I have rules upon rules, and I turn down rec after rec from friends because I am just that critical. It goes without saying that I’m a picky little shit.

Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.Įveryone is suspect. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the sweet and simple beauty described by her father, and even Chandler would have been amazed by the plot twists that Lehane manages to keep coming. Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail.

Patrick's mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro.

Sacred by dennis lehane