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.
Key facts about Prayers for Rain
Prayers for Rain is a novel by Dennis Lehane. Readers have had it since 1 January 1999. It runs to 406 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Prayers for Rain. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780063084865 to find the main one.
Prayers for Rain is book 5 of 6 in the Kenzie & Gennaro series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with A Drink Before the War (1994). Moonlight Mile is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 2 November 2010.
Additionally, Dennis Lehane writes Coughlin Trilogy as a separate series. Those series sit on our crime fiction and historical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Small Mercies is the latest published Dennis Lehane book on file, from 25 April 2023.
About Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane was born in 1965 in the Dorchester neighbourhood of Boston, the child of Irish immigrants, and grew up in the working-class world that would become the setting for most of his fiction. He studied creative writing at Eckerd College and Florida International University before publishing his first novel, A Drink Before the War, in 1994, introducing private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. See every Dennis Lehane book in order.
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