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Book Reviews of Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5)

Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5)
Prayers for Rain - Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5
Author: Dennis Lehane
ISBN-13: 9780380730360
ISBN-10: 0380730367
Publication Date: 5/1/2000
Pages: 416
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 176 ratings
Publisher: HarperTorch
Book Type: Paperback
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19 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 4 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
After reading this novel, I've read everything else I could find by Dennis Lehane, love his style! The main characters are private investigators with a lot of history between them.
quilty45 avatar reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 100 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Dennis LeHane is my favorite author and this book is very well written and a great read. Kenzie investigates the "suicide" of a former client who was perky and full of life when he knew her six months ago. He finds a sadistic stalker is involved.
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 20 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
intriguing mystery. well written.
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great book. Dennis Lehane also wrote Mystic River. This is his fifth book in the Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro detective series. Good characters, set in Boston and surrounding areas.
Twintoni avatar reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 133 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Another great Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro story. Author Lehane has come up with a suspenseful plot as the investigating team goes up against a pyschopathic stalker.
Sunshine avatar reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 142 more book reviews
This is great series. Not lighthearted but a good realistic view of the dark side of crime and crime-solving. I want more of this series!!
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 2 more book reviews
One of Lehane's better efforts.
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 80 more book reviews
Great read - dark!
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great book!
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on
Lehane writes abnormal psychology books--entertaining abnormal psychology books! I enjoy them because I have lived theyah(the area he writes about)-or there in NON Bostonian English. And I've met a few of his characters in the flesh. Maybe not so over the top? I've met some that were even crazier if possible. His books are just fookin' great! Remember Scott Pearse is not a local character! ps. My husband knew a Scott Pearse but he wasn't like Lehane's nasty fellow! Thanks and keep reading!
spartacusaby avatar reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 81 more book reviews
This is a great page-turner, with seriously warped characters among both the good guys and the bad. I'll be looking for more from this author.
susieqmillsacoustics avatar reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 1062 more book reviews
A good mystery with strange plot twists. Interesting characters. Overall, a good read, but not one of Lehane's best.
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 14 more book reviews
This was a great book. I haven't read any of his work before but will definitely be reading more.
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 25 more book reviews
this is the second book i've read by this author. really enjoyed it. lots of twists and turns.
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 2 more book reviews
Lehane's book is quick moving and very gripping with a touch of humor.
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 121 more book reviews
I really enjoy his writing.
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 335 more book reviews
From the back of the book:

Karen Nichols was pert, blonde, in love with her fiance and her life when Patrick Kenzie first met her. But six months later, she jumped naked from Boston's Custom House, leaving behind a downward spiral of drug abuse, depression, and sexual misadventure. She was an utterly different woman - and Kenzie wants to know why.

What he finds is almost incomprehensible: a depraved stalker who carefully targeted Karen and slowly, methodically, exploited her every weakness, stripped away all that mattered to her, and then watched her self-destruct. Now as Kenzie and his former partner Angela Gennaro begin a psychological battle against a master sadist the law can't touch, they discover he's starting to learn their weaknesses, their loves - and he's determined to tear their world apart.
reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 15 more book reviews
Spenser with a girl assistant. Good Read
IndulgeYourself avatar reviewed Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro, Bk 5) on + 100 more book reviews
I really liked this book - first one I've read by this author. I was about 2/3 through it when I realized it was part of a series. I liked the main characters so much, I ordered the first two books in the series to find out how their stories got started. Exciting mystery!
I really like this author's writing style.