They sleep together, and he leaves the next morning, slipping back into Diana's house through the window. One night Joe sneaks out the window to go see Bertie again. Bertie tells Joe about her boyfriend, the owner of the bar, who is lost in Vietnam. He confesses to her that he had split up with Diana three days before she was killed.
Feeling trapped at the Floss home, he meets Bertie and tells her about Diana. Joe convinces Ben to let him talk to the bar's owner to convince them to sell. Joe puts "Moonlight Mile" on the jukebox and Bertie dances with him. They then take Joe out for a drink at the same bar Bertie went to the previous night. Mulcahey agrees, but they need to get all the tenants to agree.ĭiana's friends come around to look through her possessions, much to the consternation of her mother, Jojo. Joe and Ben attend a local property fair, and Ben pitches the idea of redeveloping a block in the town to developer Mike Mulcahey. He drops her off at a local bar, and returns home, despite her inviting him in for a drink. She finds the last invitation and takes it to his house later that night. Joe goes to the post office to retrieve all the invitations that had been sent out for his and Diana's wedding, and with the help of Bertie Knox he retrieves seventy-four of seventy-five. Ben and Joe go into business as Floss & Son, as this was their plan before Diana's death. Her father, Ben, is a realtor whose business partner has recently left. My copy was kindly provided by HarperCollins.Following the murder of Diana Floss in a restaurant in Cape Ann, Massachusetts in 1972, her fiancé Joe Nast elects to stay with her parents. Moonlight Mile will be in stores on 11/2.
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As it was, I knew enough to not feel lost at all and wouldn’t mind finishing up the series to fill in the holes. Patrick and Angela are likeable characters and I probably would have liked the book even more if I had known their entire backstory. Her Aunt Beatrice asks Patrick Kenzie to once again find her and bring her home.Some aspects of the plot were a little farfetched, but as a whole, I thought it was very entertaining. Now, twelve years later, the missing four year old from Gone, Baby, Gone is now a missing 16 year old. As it happens, Moonlight Mile has its origins with that same book.
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My only previous exposure to the characters was from the movie Gone, Baby, Gone, which was based on the fourth book in the series. It was actually a lot of fun.What I also didn’t realize going in was that this is the sixth book in the Kenzie and Gennaro series. I expected it to be a lot darker and more hard-hitting but instead it was wise-cracking with lots of witty banter. This was my first Dennis Lehane book and it was very different than what I was expecting. After his remarkable success with Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day, the celebrated author whom the Washington Post praises as, “one of those brave new detective stylists who is not afraid of fooling around with the genre’s traditions,” returns to his roots-and the result, as always, is electrifying.
An explosive tale of vengeance and redemption-the brilliant sequel to Gone, Baby, Gone- Moonlight Mile returns Lehane’s unforgettable and deeply human detective duo to the mean streets of blue collar Boston to investigate the second disappearance of Amanda McCready, now sixteen years old. Moonlight Mile is the first Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro suspense novel in more than a decade from the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane. Lehane offers a bravura demonstration of how it’s done.” “ emerged from the whodunit ghetto as a broader and more substantial talent.When it comes to keeping readers exactly where he wants them, Mr.
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