Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class
Boston in Darkness Take My Hand a terrifying tale of redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela
Gennaro's latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist running scared from a vengeful
Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the
mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester they've seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of
the unfortunate. But an evil for which even they are unprepared is about to strike as secrets
that have long lain dormant erupt setting off a chain of violent murders that will stain
everything - including the truth. With razor-sharp dialogue and penetrating prose Darkness
Take My Hand is another superior crime novel from the author of Mystic River Gone Baby Gone
and Shutter Island.
