Kenzie & Gennaro · Book 2

Darkness, Take My Hand

by Dennis Lehane

Published
1 January 1996
Pages
455
ISBN-13
9780061244513
Type
novel

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Cover of Darkness, Take My Hand

About this book

Darkness, Take My Hand followed in 1996 at 455 pages -- nearly 120 pages longer than A Drink Before the War -- deepening Kenzie and Gennaro's found family, including the volatile, magnetic Bubba Rogowski.

Its place in Kenzie & Gennaro

Darkness, Take My Hand is book 2 in the Kenzie & Gennaro series. It follows A Drink Before the War. It is followed by Sacred. 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…

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