New York Times Bestseller
First Time in Trade Paperback
“Lehane’s writing mixes the streetwise and the lyrical…. Lehane has made quantum leaps as a craftsman…a writer bringing new confidence and an easy prowess to a new chapter in an epic story—the Kenzie-Gennaro saga.”
—Washington Post
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- William Morrow Paperbacks
- Carton Qty: 60
- Selling Territory: USCOM
- 75,000
- PUBLISHING HISTORY
- Harper
(mm) 9780061836954
- On Sale: 4/10/2012
- FICTION
- pb 9780062072429 $14.99 ($16.99)
- 336 pages; 5 5/16 x 8
- Moonlight Mile debuted on the New York Times bestseller list at number six, and stayed on the list for two weeks.
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Moonlight Mile Unabridged Low Price CD
Dennis Lehane
- Audio
- 9780062108975
- Reader: Jonathan Davis
- Media: CDs
- 7/26/2011
- $19.99 ($22.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Moonlight Mile
Dennis Lehane
- Mass Market PB
- 9780061836954
- 7/26/2011
- $9.99 ($11.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Moonlight Mile LP
Dennis Lehane
- Large Print
- 9780062012166
- 11/2/2010
- $26.99 ($29.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane
- Trade PB
- 9780061336218
- 9/7/2010
- $14.99 ($16.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Prayers for Rain
Dennis Lehane
- Mass Market PB
- 9780061998881
- 7/27/2010
- $9.99 ($12.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Shutter Island Graphic Novel
Dennis Lehane
- Trade PB
- 9780061968570
- 1/5/2010
- $21.99 ($24.99 Can.)
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“Moonlight Mile is yet more proof that the author is as much social historian as mystery writer, and that his true literary forefathers include John Steinbeck as well as Raymond Chandler…. Flies at you fast and sinks its hooks into you for keeps. . . . Lehane’s writing, as always, is tight, vivid and brilliantly assured.”
- Chicago Tribune
"Unlike the usual sequel writer who simply puts old creations through new paces, Mr. Lehane registers a deep affection for the Kenzie-Gennaro team and a passionate involvement in their problems. And he treats each book in this series as an occasion for wondering what kind of world can produce the depravity that each new plotline describes. . . . So Patrick and Angie follow the bread-crumb trail of clues and suspects, giving Mr. Lehane many occasions to write acid-etched dialogue and show off his fine powers of description."
- New York Times
"In many ways, the novel is an homage to happy family life. It's a deft delivery system for a story that mixes guts, betrayal and the importance of good values. It's also a sublime love story about what really matters in the grand scheme of things. Lehane says this may be the last novel he writes about Kenzie and Gennaro. It seems to wrap up the loose ends and set them on a more domestic path. If that's the case, it's a heck of a way to go out."
- USA Today
"Throughout, Lehane's writing mixes the streetwise and the lyrical. . . . Elsewhere, an extended metaphor aches with confusion and loss - not just the core characters' but that of a larger community, perhaps America itself. . . . Lehane has made quantum leaps as a craftsman. . . . Lehane is a writer bringing new confidence and an easy prowess to a new chapter in an epic story-the Kenzie-Gennaro saga"
- Washington Post
"Given that this is Lehane writing, the novel offers intense and violent action, brilliantly evoked Boston and surrounding locales, an assortment of finely etched individuals skilled in thuggery, various awful parents, and a complicated knot of a plot with surprise twists to spare."
- Houston Chronicle
“[Moonlight Mile] zooms along the express track without sacrificing the emotional punch of Lehane’s previous works.”
- Los Angeles Book Review
“Lehane delivers masterfully with his latest novel, Moonlight Mile. It’s a taut, reflective sequel. . . . The book. . . crackles with Lehane’s trademark wit and street wisdom. . . . You always learn something new when reading Lehane. Here, he’ll have you flipping pages as fast as you can, loving the pace and danger, all the while pondering how far your own moral compass might wobble away from true north under the right circumstances.”
- Dallas Morning News
"A modern master of suspense revives the series that initially earned him a hard-core following. . . . [Its] wise-cracking dialogue, page-turning plot and protagonists who are all the more likable for their flaws extend the addictive spirit of the series. . . . Welcome back."
- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Lehane delivers an emotional story that connects with the characters’ capacity to grow….
Moonlight Mile is a worthy return for Lehane’s iconic characters.”
Moonlight Mile is a worthy return for Lehane’s iconic characters.”
- Kansas City Star
“Lehane is one of America’s best crime novelists; this book could easily become as memorable a film as two of his other spellbinding novels, Mystic River and Shutter Island.”
- Lansing State Journal
"It will send Lehane first-timers to the stacks searching for earlier titles."
- Florida Times-Union
“For fans of the Boston-based detective couple…the return is more than welcome… [Moonlight Mile is] mapped out with Hammett-like precision, but as with Hammett (and Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald and Charles Willeford), when Lehane’s on his game, it isn’t the plot that matters. It’s the characters, and the smart, hard-boiled prose.”
- Philadelphia Inquirer
"One of the best writers of his generation."
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Big-hearted, sometimes heartbreaking and always compelling, Moonlight Mile is the very welcome return of blue-collar Boston private eyes Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro.”
- Seattle Times
“Moonlight Mile reflects the national zeitgeist—resentful, fearful and angry—like few other novels I’ve read this year. Lehane, always a populist, nails it.”
- Oregonian
"Dennis Lehane is one of the best in the business of writing in the hard-boiled detective form. . . . Lehane is a master of the genre's lean, propulsive style and its sharply observed descriptions."
- St. Petersburg Times
"Lehane's new book is so much more than a mystery. Drug dealers, Russian gangsters and a mentally unstable crime boss and his wife provide a colorful and dangerous backdrop for a tale of wrong and right and how seldom there are clear-cut, simple matters. Moonlight Mile provides the twists and thrills that mystery lovers crave, and so much more in a sequel that is certainly the equal of its predecessor."
- Associated Press
"Lehane's voice, original, haunting, and straight from the heart, places him among the top ranks of stylists who enrich the modern mystery novel."
- Publishers Weekly
"Dennis Lehane's gutsy Boston P.I.s Kenzie and Gennaro are back. . . . In this gritty, sardonic sequel-crammed with rage at a world in which too many girls are too easily lost. . ."
- Parade
“Lehane’s interest in investigating moral ambiguity and a genuine affection for his characters makes Moonlight Mile a satisfying send-off.”
- Christian Science Monitor