Moonlight Mile

If Joe R. Lansdale’s book Vanilla Ride seems like a repositioning for that long-running series, this is Dennis Lehane’s swan-song for his detective series about Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro who are now married and parents of a little girl, not to mention older and far-less damaged. They revisit an old case, essentially a sequel to Gone, Baby Gone, and resolve it to some extent. It’s more than a bit disappointing as a mystery novel, it reads more like the mainstream fiction that he essentially has always wanted to write, Lehane is no genre-lifer, but a welcome coda to old friends long forgotten.