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Boston, estate 1974. Per contrastare le discriminazioni e l'odio fra le etnie, le autorità impongono a molti ragazzi delle scuole frequentate dagli afroamericani di trasferirsi nelle scuole dei bianchi e viceversa, alimentando tensioni e proteste. È in questa estate torrida e tumultuosa che Mary Pat Fennessy precipita di nuovo nell'inferno. Quarantadue anni passati fra le case popolari dell'enclave irlandese-americana di South...

?Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment.? ? Stephen KingThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River?an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston's history.In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay ...

New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River - an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston's history.'Mrs. Fennessy, please go home.''And do what?''Whatever you do when you're home.''And then what?''Get up the next day and do it again.'She shakes her head. 'That's not living.''It is if you can fi...

A Times and Sunday Times Thriller of the MonthIn the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of 'Southie', the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a you...

Boston, 1974. Die Stadt kocht. Künftig sollen schwarze Kinder mit Bussen in weiße Schulen gebracht werden und vice versa. Angst geht um und Hass. Eines Nachts kehrt Mary Pat Fennessys 17-jährige Tochter Jules nicht nach Hause zurück. Mary Pat beginnt Fragen zu stellen, stößt auf Schweigen und Widersprüche, bis sie versteht: Man hat ihr das Letzte genommen, was ihr in dieser Welt Halt gab. Außer sich vor Schmerz macht sie sich auf, um Rache zu ...

Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations' Gillian Flynn'One of the great diabolical thriller kings' New York TimesNew York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River - an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fen...

?Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations.? ?Gillian Flynn?One of the great diabolical thriller kings.??New York Times?Lehane has built a career as a philosopher of the human animal.??Noah HawleyThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River?an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against on...

?Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations.? ?Gillian Flynn?One of the great diabolical thriller kings.??New York Times ?Lehane has built a career as a philosopher of the human animal.??Noah HawleyThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River?an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against o...

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Eine Frau springt in den Tod. Karen Nichols war jung, erfolgreich und bis vor Kurzem noch Patrick Kenzies Klientin. Ein harmloser Fall von Stalking, um den Kenzie nur wenig Aufhebens machte. Nun packt ihn das schlechte Gewissen, denn vielleicht hätte er Karens Tod verhindern können, hätte er sorgfältiger ermittelt. Doch sein Gegner ist ein genialer Psychopath, der selbst Kenzie das Fürchten lehrt. In der Neuübersetzung von Peter Torberg.

Now available with a contemporary look, a must-have collection of riveting short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island.?Locations are vivid and crisp, characters are memorable and, most importantly, the story lines dig into you and leave their mark.? ?Boston HeraldWhen it comes to contemporary crime fiction there's no territory quite as dangerous and unpredictable as that of New York Times bestse...

“Lehane writes convincingly, tensely . . . powerfully.”—USA TodayLate spring, 1943. The world is at war but the American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe Coughlin now works as a consigliere to the infamous Bartolo Crime Family, effortlessly handling their interests in Tampa, Boston, and Cuba. In the decade since he lost his wife in a cascade of bullets, Joe has made a home for himself and his son, and once again forged everything ou...

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Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Mystic River with The Drop—A love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith.Three days after Christmas, Bob, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live, hears a whimper coming from inside a trash can. The abused puppy he finds there will change his life forever, as will Nadia, the damaged woman he meets that night. Like him, she's desperatel...

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...