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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1994
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Coughlin

1 - The Given Day (Sep-2008)
2 - Live by Night (Oct-2012)
3 - World Gone by (Mar-2015)

Mystic River

1 - Mystic River (Jan-2001)
2 - The Drop (Sep-2014)

Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro

1 - A Drink Before the War (Nov-1994)
2 - Darkness, Take My Hand (Jul-1996)
3 - Sacred (Aug-1997)
4 - Gone, Baby, Gone (Jul-1998)
5 - Prayers for Rain (Mar-1999)
6 - Moonlight Mile (Nov-2010)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • A cadre of powerful Massachusetts politicians offers Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro big money for a small job: find the missing cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential Statehouse documents. But there's much more to this crime than anyone r...



  • He came during the warmest, most erratic autumn on record, when the weather seemed to have flipped completely off its usual course, when everything seemed upside down, as if you'd look at a hole in the ground and see stars and constellations floa...



  • A beautiful, grief-stricken woman vanishes without a trace. The detective hired to find her disappears as well. A dangerous cult manipulates the needy. A dying billionaire rages against fate. And two private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela G...



  • The neighborhood is no place for the innocent, the young, the defenseless or the pure. This is a territory of broken families, bitter cops, whacked out ex-cons, and a mother who watches herself on the nightly news as her missing child floats further ...



  • Karen Nichols was pert, blonde, in love with her fiance and her life when Patrick Kenzie first met her. But six months later, she jumped naked from Boston's Custom House, leaving behind a downward spiral of drug abuse, depression, and sexual misadven...



  • When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed a...



  • The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loos...



  • A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle. . . . A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger. . . . An innocent man is hunted by government age...



  • Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, bestselling author Dennis Lehane’s extraordinary eight novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads where past meets future. Filled with a cast of...






  • Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....



  • Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find her -- only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and broken home. Twelve years ...



  • When a different kind of justice is needed -- swift, effective, and personal -- a new type of avenger must take action. Vengeance features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaugh...



  • Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops....



  • Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Mystic River with The Drop A love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith Three days after Christmas, Bob, a lonely bartender looking for a rea...



  • Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of The Given Day and Live by Night, returns with a psychologically and morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in whi...



  • SINCE WE FELL follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy aftern...



  • From Dennis Lehane, the award-winning author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and the Kenzie-Gennaro series, comes a surprisingly different collection of five short stories:Running Out the Dog ICU Gone Down to Corpus Mushrooms Until GwenAt turns ...



  • “Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations.” -- Gillian Flynn“One of the great diabolical thriller kings.” -- New York Times “Lehane has built a career as a philosopher of the hu...


Award-Winning Books by Dennis Lehane

A Drink Before the War
1994 Shamus Award -- First P.I. Novel
Gone, Baby, Gone
1999 Dilys Award -- Mystery Novel
Live by Night
2013 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
Mystic River
2002 Anthony Award -- Novel
2002 Dilys Award -- Mystery Novel
2002 Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) -- Fiction
Sacred
1998 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel
Small Mercies
2023 Amazon Editors' Picks -- Mysteries & Thrillers


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dennis Lehane has published 18 books.

Dennis Lehane does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Small Mercies, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War, was published in November 1994.

Yes. Dennis Lehane has 3 series.