Professional of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption.

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s most recent customer is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, working scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators find out about cold-blooded retribution. Created and bred in the mean roads of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve noticed the darkness that lives in the hearts from the unfortunate.

But an bad for which actually they may be unprepared is about to strike, as secrets that have long lain dormant erupt, setting off a chain of violent murders which will stain everything – like the truth.

With razor-sharp dialogue and penetrating prose, Darkness, Take My Hand is another superior crime novel from the author of Mystic River; Eliminated, Baby, Gone; and Shutter Island.