Gone, Baby, Gone (Lehane)

Gone, Baby, Gone 
Dennis Lehane, 1998
HarperCollins
448 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780061336218


Summary
The neighborhood is no place for the innocent, the young, the defenseless or the pure. This is a territory of broken families, bitter cops, whacked out ex-cons, and a mother who watches herself on the nightly news as her missing child floats further and further into the unkown.

Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, don't want this case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they embark upon an investigation and ultimately risk losing everything- their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives-to find this little-girl-lost.

Capturing the voices that echo within blue collar Boston, Dennis Lehane is a master storyteller, who weaves together embittered people, tattered emotions, and brutal crime to create relentless, heart-pounding novels of suspense. Gritty and evocative, the novels of Dennis Lehane are ones you will never forget. (From the publisher.)

The novel was adapted to film in 2007 by Ben Affleck and stars Morgan Freeman, Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, and Ed Harris.

Moonlight Mile (2010) is the sequel to this novel, even though it comes 2 books later.