Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find her, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and broken home. Twelve years later, Amanda, now sixteen, is gone again.
Still haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro must now revisit the nightmare that once tore them apart. Following the trail of a lost teenager into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, and Russian gangsters, they once again put everything that matters to them on the line in pursuit of an answer to a troubling question: Is it possible to do the right thing and still be dead wrong?
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane is the sixth book in the series featuring Boston Private Investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. In Moonlight Mile Patrick and Angela must again search for Amanda McCready. Amanda, the four year old they searched for twelve years earlier in Lehane's Gone, Baby, Gone (1998), is now sixteen and missing again. The outcome of the previous case has continued to haunted Patrick and Angela, now married with a four year old daughter.
While in many ways this novel is predictable, it is entertaining and very well written. You can appreciate it and follow the story just fine without reading any of the previous novels following these characters. This is highly recommended.
I left the kitchen. "Best of luck, Brandon." Halfway down the stairs, I stopped. "By the way, Dominique's not coming." I turned back toward the top of the stairs and leaned my elbow on the railing. "And, oh yeah, her name's not Dominique."
His flip-flops made a sloppy-wet-kiss noise as he crossed the floorboards and appeared in the doorway above me. "How do you know?"