Sacred

Its place in Kenzie & Gennaro

Sacred is book 3 in the Kenzie & Gennaro series. It follows Darkness, Take My Hand. It is followed by Gone, Baby, Gone. 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…