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Kenzie and Gennaro have been hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her home without leaving a trace. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation, the police inquiry has so far uncovered nothing. The case is rife with oddities: Amanda's strangely indifferent mother and her dangerous, drug-addled friends; her loving aunt and uncle; and two cops who have found so many abused or dead children they may already be over the edge.As the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone - banished so completely that she seems never to have existed. And when a second child disappears, Kenzie and Gennaro face a local media more interested in sensationalizing the abductions than helping to solve them, a police force seething with lethal secrets, and a faceless power determined to obstruct their efforts. Caught in a deadly tangle of lies and betrayal, they must confront the horror of what the world can inflict on its children in order to unravel a riddle that's anything but child's play.

Though best known for his hugely successful novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of the short story. This collection, his first to be published in the UK, includes the story "Running out of Dog" which was featured in "The Best American Mystery Stories 2005" and "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century". It also includes the full text of the acclaimed play "Coronado". Infused with the compelling narrative drive, piercing insight, and psychological drama that have made his novels bestsellers, "Coronado" is sure to satisfy this acclaimed writer's devoted following while they eagerly await his next novel.

When they were children, Sean, Jimmy and Dave were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened-something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.

In 1954 on a remote island in Massachusetts Bay, a mental patient has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital. Since there is no way off the island, logic dictates that she must be hiding somewhere, and the hospital calls in US Marshalls Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule to flush her out. But when they arrive, they find that there is more going on than a simple escape, and a lot of it is in their own heads--and an approaching storm isn't going to make things easier....

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades -- with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.

Summer, 1954 - US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped murderess named Rachel Solando as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems, and neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumours of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? Rumours that hint of drug experimentation, surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing ...As the investigation deepens, the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped an island from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? Why is there no record of a patient committed just one year before? What really goes on in Ward C? Why is an empty lighthouse surrounded by an electrified fence and armed guards? The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane...

1954 untersucht der US-Marshall Edward Daniels mit seinem Partner Chuck Aule das ratselhafte Verschwinden einer Patientin aus dem auf der Insel Shutter Island untergebrachten Spezialgefangis fur geistesgestorte Schwerverbrecher. Die Patientin, eine mehrfache Kindesmorderin namens Rachel Solando, hatte es geschafft, ohne Spuren zu hinterlassen aus ihrer verschlossenen Zelle zu entkommen.Edward Daniels hat auerdem ein privates Interesse an dem Auftrag: Er vermutet den Morder seiner Frau Dolores, Andrew Laeddis, auf Shutter Island. Vom ersten Moment an haben die beiden Marshalls das Gefuhl, dass die Gefangnisleitung etwas zu verbergen hat. Der Verdacht, dass verbotene Experimente an den geisteskranken Kriminellen durchgefuhrt werden, verdichtet sich.Nachdem Daniels aus einer verschlusselten Botschaft der verschwundenen Rachel Solando den Hinweis entnehmen konnte, dass ein nichtregistrierter Insasse existiert, wird seine Suche nach Laeddis zu Besessenheit. Wahrend eines Hurrikanes, der die Insel von der Auenwelt abschneidet, dringt er mit seinem Partner in den abgetrennten Block C ein, in dem die gefahrlichsten Verbrecher untergebracht sind.Hier finden sich erste Anhaltspunkte fur die Anwesenheit Laeddis. Die Ereignisse spitzen sich dramatisch zu, als sein Partner Chuck Aule spurlos verschwindet. Daniels entkommt im letzten Augenblick den Wachmannschaften, schafft es aber nicht, die Insel zu verlassen. Schlielich dringt er in den Leuchtturm ein, in dem er den Schauplatz der medizinischen Experimente und seinen gefangenen Partner Chuck vermutet.

Now a major motion picture directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring an A-list cast including Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laura Linney, and Marcia gay Hardenthis New York Times bestselling novel from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy''s daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy''s daughter died covered in someone else''s blood. A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.

The brilliantly dark and atmospheric new masterpiece from one of the most critically-acclaimed and respected crime authors of his generation

Considerado pelo Wall Street Journal a obra-prima de Dennis Lehane, Golpe de misericórdia é uma descrição brutal da criminalidade e um retrato assombroso do racismo nos Estados Unidos.Boston, 1974. O

When wisecracking detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist who believes she may have angered the Boston Irish Mafia, they soon find bodies are piling up around them - seemingly unconnected with their case.

No verão de 1954, o xerife Teddy Daniels chega a Shutter Island com seu novo parceiro Chuck Aule. A dupla deverá investigar a fuga de uma interna do Hospital Psiquiátrico Ashecliffe, reservado a paci

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