A Drink Before the War

Author: Dennis Lehane

Publisher: New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.

Series: Kenzie and Gennaro series, 1

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are two whip-smart P.I.’s that carry a lot of baggage. Kenzie’s father was a ‘hero’ firefighter and abusive dad. Gennaro regularly wears sunglasses inside the office; to hide the black eyes her dead-beat husband gives her. Yet the pair manage to survive through the 6 mysteries in this series by leaning on each other.

The case we join them on in ‘A Drink Before the War’, is a real doozy. The duo is hired by a pair of senators to locate a missing woman and the confidential documents they believe she’s stolen. Finding the woman is a cake walk, but when she is gunned down in what appears to be an act of gangland violence, Kenzie and Gennaro now must survive an all-out gang war on the streets of Boston.

Lehane crafts an intricately plotted web of conspiracies that our sleuths get stuck in, weaving together political corruption and gangland warfare. After racing through Boston with Kenzie and Gennaro as they work to crack the case, you’ll want to jump right into the next one with them.

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21685.A_Drink_Before_the_War
Author’s website: http://dennislehane.com/