Dennis Lehane’s books have been made into films by Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island), Clint Eastwood (Mystic River) and Ben Affleck (Gone, Baby, Gone), he spent time in the august writing room of The Wire, and the New York Times proclaimed his 2008 historical novel, The Given Day, “a majestic, fiery epic that moves him far beyond the confines of the crime genre.” But before all that, Lehane made his rep with five Kenzie-Gennaro crime books. — Grady Hendrix

Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned. — Fiction Book Review