This novel may lack some of Lehane’s usual bite, but, hey,
it’s the last of the Angela Gennaro/Patrick Kenzie novels, and I’m willing to
cut the author some slack. Angie and
Patrick are now married with a four-year-old daughter, when the girl from
Gone,
Baby, Gone reenters the picture, or not, as she has actually
gone missing again more than a decade later.
Amanda McCready is now sixteen, sharp as a tack, and apparently does not
suffer fools gladly, including her incompetent mother. Patrick wants to make amends for having
returned her to said mother in the first place and now must determine whether
she has been kidnapped again or has simply taken off of her own accord. The latter seems unlikely, since she needs to
finish school in order to qualify for admission to an Ivy League university. The real start of this novel is Amanda
herself, absent or present, who overshadows Patrick and Angie with her guile
and ability to bend others to her will.
Patrick and Angie are no slouches, but Patrick unwittingly challenges
Russian Mafiosi, who, of course, threaten harm to his daughter. Where is my favorite Lehane
character—Patrick’s very capable sidekick, Bubba--in all this? He takes a backseat as babysitter, and I did
not like him in that role at all, even if he is the one person who can do the
job effectively. Anyway, I will miss our
two intrepid investigators.
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