Moonlight Mile

Moonlight Mile

by Dennis Lehane

336 pages

I loved Dennis Lehane's The Given Day, but his latest book,

MoonlightMile, is not of the same quality. It's a good read for those who like private eye stories, however. The characters were not as well-developed as I like, and it is very "plot-driven".

The PI Patrick Kenzie gets involved in the Russian mob while trying to find and return a teenager who he 'rescued' when she went missing twelve years earlier. I found the Russians to be ridiculous, Amanda, the missing teenager, to be way too savvy, and the PI to be way too lucky. In spite of this, the book was a guilty pleasure, and I will try another Lehane book hoping for one more like The Given Day and less like The Moonlight Mile.