Gone, Baby, Gone

Dennis Lahane, the poet laureate of Boston's working class, is back with private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Initially they resist a missing child cases, but 80 hours have passed since her disappearance and not a single clue has turned up. At the behest of the child's aunt, Kenzie and Gennaro join in the hunt--in a search that will tear into their souls and those of all involved. Author profile at avonbooks.com.

The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything--their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives--to find a little girl lost.