Prayers for Rain - (Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro) by Dennis Lehane (Paperback)

About the Book

Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro of Boston are hired by a woman to find her stalker. When she commits suicide, they discover a killer who manipulates his victims' minds until despair drives them to kill themselves.

Book Synopsis

A New
York Times Notable Book

Now available with a contemporary look, New York Times
bestselling author Dennis Lehane's Prayers for Rain is a "hard boiled
shocker" (New York Times Book Review) and stunning psychological
thriller about a master sadist determined to tear Kenzie and Gennaro's world
apart.
When Patrick first meets Karen Nichols, she strikes him as a
naive woman from a protected upbringing, untouched by tragedy. But six months
later Karen commits suicide by leaping from one of Boston's monuments. Patrick
finds himself wondering what can alter someone so drastically, so quickly, that
suicide seems her only option. Yet Patrick soon suspects that tragic events
that befell Karen during the last months of her life--an "accident" that destroyed
her fiancé; the loss of her job, her apartment, and eventually her mind--may not
have been as random as they first appeared.

Enlisting the aid of his ex-partner and ex-flame, Angela
Gennaro, as well as that of his friend, the lethally unbalanced Bubba Rogowski,
Patrick enters into a treacherous game of cat-and-mouse with a man who, instead
of merely killing his victims, prefers to make them wish they were dead. As
Patrick, Angie, and Bubba wage psychological warfare with this brilliant,
depraved sociopath, they discover they might be fighting a losing battle
against an enemy who is determined to tear their worlds apart.

Review Quotes

"With sharp dialogue, inventively gruesome violence and the darkest of dark humor, Lehane's fifth novel proves again that he's the hippest heir of Hammett and Chandler." - Publishers Weekly
"As in all the best hard-boiled series, each entry reveals more about the principal characters and their relationships in a violent, uncaring world where the only verities are the ones you establish for yourself and defend vigorously. Lehane has worked his way into the top echelon of crime writers." - Booklist
"[Lehane]...writes like an angel on crystal meth." - Kirkus Reviews