Dennis Lehane

No. 21568  Dennis Lehane and some of his books

Dennis Lehane’s books include:

A Drink Before the War. (199)  Kenzie-Gennaro novel

Darkness, Take My Hand. (1996) Kenzie-Gennaro novel

Sacred. (1997) Kenzie-Gennaro novel

Gone, Baby, Gone. (1998) Kenzie-Gennaro novel

Prayers for Rain. (1999) Kenzie-Gennaro novel

Moonlight Mile. (2010) Kenzie-Gennaro novel

Mystic River. (2001)

Shutter Island. (2003)

Coronado Stories. (2006)

The Given Day. (2008)

Moonlight Mile. (2010)

Live by Night. (2012)

The Drop. (2014)

World Gone By. (2015)

Since We Fell. (2017)

 

Dennis Lehane grew up in Boston. Since his first novel, A Drink Before the War, won the Shamus Award, he has published twelve more novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and become international bestsellers: Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; Mystic River; Shutter Island; The Given Day; Moonlight Mile; Live by Night; and World Gone By. His most recent work is a stand-alone novel, Since We Fell.

Four of his novels – Live by Night, Mystic River, Gone, Baby, Gone, and Shutter Island – have been adapted into films. A fifth, The Drop, was adapted by Lehane himself into a film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini in his final role.  Lehane was a staff writer on the acclaimed HBO series, The Wire, and also worked as a writer-producer on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Netflix‘s Bloodline, DirecTV’s Mr. Mercedes, and HBO’s upcoming series The Outsider.

Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He and his family live in California.

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December 23, 2021

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