A New York Times Notable Book
Now available with a contemporary look, New York Times bestselling
author Dennis Lehane's Prayers for Rain is a "hard boiled shocker"
(New York Times Book Review) and stunning psychological thriller about
a master sadist determined to tear Kenzie and Gennaro's world apart.
When Patrick first meets Karen Nichols, she strikes him as a naive woman
from a protected upbringing, untouched by tragedy. But six months later
Karen commits suicide by leaping from one of Boston's monuments. Patrick
finds himself wondering what can alter someone so drastically, so
quickly, that suicide seems her only option. Yet Patrick soon suspects
that tragic events that befell Karen during the last months of her
life--an "accident" that destroyed her fiancé; the loss of her job, her
apartment, and eventually her mind--may not have been as random as they
first appeared.
Enlisting the aid of his ex-partner and ex-flame, Angela Gennaro, as
well as that of his friend, the lethally unbalanced Bubba Rogowski,
Patrick enters into a treacherous game of cat-and-mouse with a man who,
instead of merely killing his victims, prefers to make them wish they
were dead. As Patrick, Angie, and Bubba wage psychological warfare with
this brilliant, depraved sociopath, they discover they might be fighting
a losing battle against an enemy who is determined to tear their worlds
apart.
