Dennis Lehane Returns to Kenzie & Gennaro - With a GONE, BABY GONE Sequel

The mystery community's known for roughly a year that Dennis Lehane's current work-in-progress was a return to the universe of his series characters, Boston-area private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. But the Boston Herald's Gayle Fee and Laura Reposa report that the book ("due next summer or early fall") is not just a return for the duo, but an outright sequel to his 1998 novel GONE, BABY GONE (made into the 2007 film directed by Ben Affleck):

Newsflash: Boston mystery man Dennis Lehane is going back to the future. His next book is a sequel to his 1999 best-seller “Gone, Baby, Gone,” and is set 11 years after detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro’s toughest case.

“I thought I would never write about them again,” Lehane told the Track . “Then all of a sudden I thought, what would it be like if a girl walked back into your life that was part of the most guilt-inducing decision you had ever made.”

“It’s 11 years later, and that same girl goes missing again. And now he’s gotta find her again,” he said. “Initially he doesn’t want to, but then he finds himself chasing this part of the past that almost destroyed him and every relationship he’s ever had. It’s something he never made peace with.”

"That same girl", of course, is Amanda McReady, who would be 15 in this new book. (For some reason the Herald reports McReady's return in a separate paragraph, curiously neglecting to connect the dots to Lehane's quote in the above section.) And even though Kenzie & Gennaro will age in real-time to being in their 40s, Lehane is keeping mum on everything else about them, to Fee and Reposa's chagrin: "Are they married? Estranged? Facebook friends??? “I can’t tell you,” [Lehane] said. “You gotta read the book. I want my 25 bucks!”

(H/T to Ali "Shutter Island" Karim)

Comments

[Ali]

Thanks Sarah - you may not recall, but it was thanks to you that I got a personally signed copy of sHuTtEr iSLanD by Lehane, when you worked in NY with Maggie Griffin, we exchanged books.

Isn't it good that 5 years on, that book still haunts my mind,

Ali

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[Graham]

A sequel to Gone Baby Gone? WANT.

[Hector]

Hey Ali, I'm looking for a good book to read. Got any recommendations?

[Ali]

Hector,

Here's why I consider Lehane's gothic novel a masterwork -

http://existentialistman.blogspot.com/2008/12/return-to-shutter-island.html

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[JD Rhoades]

oh, HELL yeah!

[Keith Raffel]

I'm nervous about sequels to books I adore, but I won't be able to resist this one.

[Ali]

Keith

As the Borg say "Resistance is Futile"

"Gone Baby Gone II" will be one hotly anticipated book.

I heard that it was to be titled "Grown, Baby, Grown" but personally I perfer the working title "Baby's Gone to sHuTteR iSLaNd"

Ali