I’m a big fan of Lehane’s so I’m looking forward to this.
The title of the book is Moonlight Mile and it will be released on 11/2/2010. It is the sequel to Gone Baby Gone.
After the jump check out all the info for this highly anticipated title.
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston suburb in 1997. Desperate pleas for help from the child’s aunt led savvy, tough-nosed investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl—only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home.
Now Amanda is 16—and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. Yet Amanda’s aunt is once more knocking at Patrick Kenzie’s door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, bright young woman who hasn’t been seen in two weeks.
Haunted by the past, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most, following a 12-year trail of secrets and lies down the darkest alleys of Boston’s gritty, blue-collar streets. Assuring themselves that this time will be different, they vow to make good on their promise to find Amanda and see that she is safe. But their determination to do the right thing holds dark implications Kenzie and Gennaro aren’t prepared for . . . consequences that could cost them not only Amanda’s life, but their own.
I know Mystic River gets all the acclaim, but this series (IMHO) is Lehane’s best work as a writer and storyteller. He makes me scared to go to Boston.
I’m all for Lehane returning to the Kenzie/Gennaro series, but did it really need to be a sequel to Gone Baby Gone, i.e. the-one-they-made-a-fucking-movie-out-of? I think the series is popular enough that the two of them could have just had a whole new case together.
Also, I fear Lehane might try to class up the new book a bit. The movie shed a lot of raw pulp that the novel held, like down-playing Bubba and the glorious molester compound shootout (the greatest action sequence in any book ever). I hope that Lehane plays it in the spirit of the original book, where weighty shit and nasty pulp were able to coexist in a funky-ass way, instead of the movie.
But mild fears aside, I pretty pumped for this shit. Nobody does straight-up PI fiction anywhere near as well as Lehane.