Mostly Murder

“It took only two books for Dennis Lehane to stake out the blue-collar suburb of Dorchester as prime territory for a new private-eye series…The author nails the distinctive accents and character traits of the all-too-human working stiffs who pace out their lives between Carney Hospital and the Black Emerald bar.”

New York Times Book Review

“Terrifying…The passion of Lehane’s neighborhood nightmare can hardly be denied. And he’s created a villain who’s both surprising and grimly fascinating: the kind of figure one hates but can’t stop reading about.”

Kirkus Reviews

“Masterful…gritty and sometimes hilarious…If Mr. Lehane proved last time out he knows what he is doing stylewise, in this book he adds the substance.”

Washington Times

“I’m betting Lehane is going to be a name to reckon with in years to come.”

James W. Hall

Books by
Dennis Lehane

SHUTTER ISLAND

MYSTIC RIVER

PRAYERS FOR RAIN

GONE, BABY, GONE

SACRED

DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND

A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND. Copyright © 2006 by Dennis Lehane. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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