Dennis Lehane
 

The guy who wrote Mystic River and more recently Shutter Island (which I could not put down until I finished it, awesome book) ...plus a series of excellent private eye novels set in Boston, featuring the main character Patrick Kenzie.

This guy is one one of my favorite writers.

Anyone else into him? Favorite book?

Re: Dennis Lehane
 

i read shutter island and meant to pick up another of his books. thanks for reminding me

Re: Dennis Lehane
 

"A Drink before the War" is the first book of the Patrick Kenzie series, but you don't really have to read them in order...

Cheers!

Re: Dennis Lehane
 

He should write a book featuring the supporting charachter bubba rogowski

Re: Dennis Lehane
 

i really like him. shutter island was awesome! it's probably in my top twenty modern fiction list.

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i read mystic river a while back and it was pretty good. what's shutter island about?

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From "Publishers Weekly" review:

"In summer 1954, two U.S. marshals, protagonist Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, arrive on Shutter Island, not far from Boston, to investigate the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando from the prison/hospital for the criminally insane that dominates the island. The marshals' digging gets them nowhere fast as they learn of Rachel's apparently miraculous escape past locked doors and myriad guards, and as they encounter roadblocks and lies strewn across their path-most notably by the hospital's chief physician, the enigmatic J. Cawley-and pick up hints of illegal brain surgery performed at the hospital. Then, as a major hurricane bears down on the island, inciting a riot among the insane and cutting off all access to the mainland, they begin to fear for their lives. All of the characters-particularly Teddy, haunted by the tragic death of his wife-are wonderful creations, but no more wonderful than the spot-on dialogue with which Lehane brings them to life and the marvelous prose that enriches the narrative. There are mysteries within mysteries in this novel, some as obvious as the numerical codes that the missing patient leaves behind and which Teddy, a code breaker in WWII, must solve; some as deep as the most profound fears of the human heart."