Kenzie & Gennaro · Book 1
A Drink Before the War
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780156029025
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Drink Before the War debuted the Kenzie & Gennaro series on 1 January 1994, introducing Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's two-person Dorchester investigation office at 336 pages -- the start of Lehane's tight, first-person Kenzie voice.
Its place in Kenzie & Gennaro
A Drink Before the War is book 1 in the Kenzie & Gennaro series. It is followed by Darkness, Take My Hand. See the full Kenzie & Gennaro reading order.
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro run a two-person private investigation office out of a church belfry in Boston's Dorchester neighbourhood, working cases that keep dragging them into the working-class, Irish-Catholic world they both grew up in and never fully escaped. Dennis Lehane built the series around a tight, first-person Kenzie voice and a moral seriousness unusual for hardboiled detective fiction: the cases -- a missing girl, a serial predator preying on children, a kidnapping that forces an agonising…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780156029025