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> Tag: Dennis Lehane

Generational Trauma

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

March 21, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

“Will anything save me from this months-long reading slump I’m in?” so I cried. Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice came close but I think that was largely due to the fact that I haven’t read many stories set in India so I didn’t know the familiar tips and tricks Stateside writers do. Aside from that one, I’ve read a lot of good stuff this year but I’ve also quit a lot because…well I don’t know the “because.” Have my standards gotten higher? Am I just tired of […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Boston, crime, Dennis Lehane, Massachusetts, Mystic River

Jake's CBR15 Review No:31 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Boston, crime, Dennis Lehane, Massachusetts, Mystic River ·
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A cool collaboration of thriller writers and characters

Face Off by David Baldacci

April 26, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This is the second collaboration audiobook I’ve borrowed and read from my library.  I got into it because of my buddy Michael Connelly.  If you read my previous review that I just posted, you’ll know that maybe he’s not my buddy after all, but Harry Bosch is.  Conveniently, Harry is in this book! The wording on Goodreads calls this “an unprecedented collaboration”, which sounds very grand.  I didn’t really get it until I looked at all the authors involved and listened to the intro.  Apparently […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: David Baldacci, Dennis Lehane, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, F. Paul Wilson, Heather Graham, Ian Rankin, james rollins, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, John Sandford, Joseph Finder, lee child, Linda Fairstein, Linwood Barclay, Lisa Gardner, M.J. Rose, Michael Connelly, Peter James, R.L. Stine, Raymond Khoury, Steve Berry, Steve Martini, T. Jefferson Parker, thriller

kfishgirl's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: David Baldacci, Dennis Lehane, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, F. Paul Wilson, Heather Graham, Ian Rankin, james rollins, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, John Sandford, Joseph Finder, lee child, Linda Fairstein, Linwood Barclay, Lisa Gardner, M.J. Rose, Michael Connelly, Peter James, R.L. Stine, Raymond Khoury, Steve Berry, Steve Martini, T. Jefferson Parker, thriller ·
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Does Crime Pay?

Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano by Andris Kurins and Joseph F. O'Brien

Sacred by Dennis Lehane

April 11, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

I hadn’t meant to review these books together but I finished Sacred sooner than I anticipated and it just makes sense to cover them both in one review…   Boss of Bosses I just finished rewatching The Godfather in honor of its 50th anniversary and I decided to tackle this one because the agents applied the movie title as a sobriquet for Paul Castellano, the mob boss of the Gambino crime family who is perhaps most famous as being the guy in John Gotti’s way that got killed in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Andris Kurins and Joseph F. O'Brien, Boss of Bosses, Boston, Dennis Lehane, FBI, Kenzie and Gennaro, mafia, mystery, New York City, Paul Castellano, Sacred, tampa, true crime

Jake's CBR14 Review No:55 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Andris Kurins and Joseph F. O'Brien, Boss of Bosses, Boston, Dennis Lehane, FBI, Kenzie and Gennaro, mafia, mystery, New York City, Paul Castellano, Sacred, tampa, true crime ·
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The Movie Was Better

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

October 7, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

So this book was okay, but the ending was a letdown especially since when you think about things in a logical way you realize that what was really going on was pretty dumb. The book drags a lot too. The movie managed to move things along quickly with a lot of great imagery. Lehane in this book though makes you go over and over things and you quickly get tired of the investigation. It’s not until the final reveal of things that the book gets […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

Classic's CBR11 Review No:250 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island ·
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A Character Study in a Suspense Novel

Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane

August 27, 2019 by Jen K 1 Comment

I quite enjoy Dennis Lehane’s novel; I love The Given Day, quite like his Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro mysteries, and think Mystic River was amazingly written.  He doesn’t just write good mysteries, I also enjoy the writing itself. The novel begins with a prologue which reveals to the reader that when Rachel is 35, she kills her husband by shooting him.  The novel then goes back in time and slowly shows the reader how Rachel got to that day in her life, and what […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Dennis Lehane, since we fell

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Dennis Lehane, since we fell ·
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Down the Rabbit Hole

Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane

March 28, 2019 by Zirza Leave a Comment

I fell for you because that’s what you do when you meet the woman whose face you want to be looking into when you die. You fall. And keep falling. And if you’re really lucky, she falls with you and then you never get back up again to where you were because if that was so great, you wouldn’t have needed to fall in the first place. Rachel Childs has not had the best childhood. Her mother was a famed psychologist and writer of self-help […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: agoraphobia, Dennis Lehane, mental illness, thriller

Zirza's CBR11 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: agoraphobia, Dennis Lehane, mental illness, thriller ·
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