Kenzie & Gennaro · Book 5
Prayers for Rain
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 406
- ISBN-13
- 9780063084865
- Type
- novel
About this book
Prayers for Rain, the fifth novel, arrived in 1999 at 406 pages, closing out Lehane's run of five Kenzie & Gennaro books in as many years before he stepped away to write standalone literary crime fiction.
Its place in Kenzie & Gennaro
Prayers for Rain is book 5 in the Kenzie & Gennaro series. It follows Gone, Baby, Gone. It is followed by Moonlight Mile. 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 9780063084865