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Lehane’s Patrick Kenzie matures
People change. Characters evolve. Lucky for us that Lehane found a way to bring a new sensibility to his former series. Some things haven’t changed. Patrick and Angie are still very much in love. They still hang out with Bubba Rogowski. Patrick’s still too honest, and not smooth enough, to ease through life by taking advantage of the offers that come his way. And he’s still headstrong.
But it’s been 12 years since Gone, Baby, Gone was published and 12 years have gone by in the fictional Boston that Gennaro and Kenzie inhabit. They’re married now, and have a four-year-old daughter. From a financial perspective, they’re hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Angie went back to school. Patrick’s freelancing as an investigator, but has the promise of a permanent position… if he can only keep from calling the high-society clients “morons” and “assholes.”
And the young girl he recovered and returned to her mother in Gone, Baby, Gone, has grown up to be a hardened, smart, and too-wise for her years 16-year-old with big problems. Did he do the right thing? Yes, he’s sure of it. Still, now that she’s disappeared again, perhaps he should let it go. But that’s not his way. Angie, who remains convinced that Patrick did the wrong thing, sees it as his chance to make good. So they’re on the same page.
Kenzie learns several valuable lessons in Moonlight Mile. One is that family comes first.
The second is that friendship can be found in unsuspected places. (Kenzie’s relationship with a Russian mobster could be the start of a pairing like Matt Scudder and Mick Ballou in Lawrence Block’s hard-boiled series.)
Third is that Patrick is clearly not the smartest person in the room.
And finally? That if it’s hard, and it’s confusing, you’re not enjoying yourself, and you’re pretty sure that what you’re doing isn’t helping anybody, maybe you should stop doing it.
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