Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane — 5 titles in the rankings, first published between 1994 and 2003. They average 7.8 — level with the catalogue as a whole. One series has a reading order worth keeping to.

Editor’s note Boston crime writer whose novels about working-class neighbourhoods, guilt and loyalty have become films by Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Ben Affleck. Shutter Island, the most read and best rated here, sends U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels in 1954 to an island hospital for the criminally insane to find a patient who has vanished from a locked room, and builds to a famous twist. The Kenzie and Gennaro novels, including Sacred and Gone, Baby, Gone, follow two private investigators from Dorchester into cases that test their consciences. He also wrote Mystic River.

Ranked titles

5 books

Average score

7.8

Total ratings

695

First published

1994–2003

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