![]() ![]() It is his stand-alone novels-especially “ Mystic River,” which appeared in 2001 and was made into a movie two years later by Clint Eastwood, and his most recent, “ Small Mercies” (Harper)-that land like a fist to the solar plexus. ![]() When the pair need muscle, they call on their sociopathic and improbably loyal buddy, Bubba Rogowski, also a former classmate, who sells illegal weapons, lives in a warehouse surrounded by booby traps, and comically terrifies everyone else.īut series fiction, in which our detectives must survive to investigate another day, can’t fully realize Lehane’s tragic vision of Boston’s working-class enclaves. Kenzie and Gennaro know the local hoods and toughs because they went to school with them. The best known of those books, “ Gone, Baby, Gone” (1998), was adapted for the screen by Ben Affleck in 2007. ![]() Lehane grew up in Dorchester, the setting for his series of books featuring Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, private detectives whose roots in the neighborhood help them solve cases. For the crime novelist Dennis Lehane, southern Boston is a muse, but for his characters it’s more of a curse. ![]()
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