Prayers For Rain by Dennis Lehane

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Dennis Lehane
• Title: Prayers For Rain (A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel)
• Publisher: ‎ William Morrow Inc.; First William Morrow Paperback Edition (2013)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 480 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0063084864
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0063084865
• Item Weight: ‎ .65 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.3 x 1.2 x 7.8 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (shows some discoloration on page edges)
• Cover Condition: Good (shows some minor wear on edges / corners)
• Edition: First William Morrow Paperback Edition

Synopsis:

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 naïve 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.

About the Author:

Dennis Lehane (born Aug 4th, 1966) is an American author. He has written several novels, including the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also called Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. (Lehane can be briefly seen waving from a car in the parade scene at the end of the film).

The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystere de la Critique.