Darkness, Take My Hand

“Haunting . . . Heart-pounding suspenseful.”—People

Now available with a contemporary look for a new generation, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane’s classic tale of working-class dignity, darkness, and redemption featuring private investigators Kenzie & Gennaro. 

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The hardboiled private investigators know something about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate. But an evil for which even they are unprepared is about to strike as a serial killer’s long-dormant secrets erupt, setting off a chain of violent murders that will stain everything—including the truth.

When Detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist they soon find bodies are piling up around them. What's more, all the clues point to an unlikely suspect - a serial killer who has been in prison for twenty years, so he can't be killing again, can he?

As the duo try to find out what kind of human being could perform such horrifying acts of mutilation, torture and dismemberment, they discover that the killer's motive is disturbingly rooted in their own past. In a series of heart-stopping climaxes that grow ever more bloody, ever more terrifying, the two detectives work frantically to capture the killer before they become victims themselves.

"Masterfully plotted and beautifully written. . . . A fierce and frightening story of crimes of the flesh and the heart." - Cincinnati Enquirer