Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane, Little, Brown, $32.99.
Eleven years ago, at the end of Lehane’s Gone, Baby, Gone, hard-bitten private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro faced a terrible moral dilemma: should they “rescue” missing four-year Amanda McCready if it means taking her away from loving and safe carers and returning her to the neglectful, abusive mother from whom she’s been helped — illegally — to escape.
They took her. Amanda is now 16 and she’s gone missing again. Not stolen this time, and clearly not wishing to be found — but her still-slatternly mother wants her back, and the law says she’s entitled.
The earlier decision has haunted all their lives, will Kenzie and Gennaro get it right this time? And will the various Russian mobsters, identity thieves and drug-taking drop-kicks who stand in their way even give them the chance?
Though a sequel, Lehane explains the back-story quickly enough to let the new novel stand alone, with a twisty plot and dialogue as sharp as a razor.
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