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When Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro accept a case to locate a cleaning woman accused of stealing confidential State House documents, they uncover a tangled ring of extortion, assassination, and child prostitution that threatens to unravel everything in Boston.
First publish date: 1994
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Dennis Lehane
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