克林伊斯威特 的《神祕河流》
班艾佛列克 的《再見寶貝，再見》
馬丁史柯西斯 的《隔離島》
夏姆斯獎最佳首作、全球銷售千萬冊的冷硬男女偵探搭檔派崔克∕安琪系列
從來沒人需要她，為了一份神祕文件，突然間，全世界都在找她
而我會完成這個任務，不．計．代．價－－
不被需要的感覺
可有可無的人生
這世界太殘酷
他x的，你需要來上一杯
一開始只是個尋人任務，
三個地方政治角頭的委託案，
波士頓最佳偵探搭檔派崔克和安琪奉命找出一個偷走機密文件的黑人清潔婦。派崔克和安琪原想，只要動用黑白兩道的人脈，查出清潔婦落腳所在，打個電話通知雇主，任務即可圓滿結束，賞金即可輕鬆落袋。
沒想到，清潔婦拿走的不是機密文件，而是幾張藏在不知名地點的照片。想要這幾張照片的也不只是三個政客，還有兩個彼此廝殺的幫派首腦。才剛接到任務不到二十四小時，派崔克就遭到狙擊，才剛和清潔婦碰面，她就慘死在派崔克面前，胸膛被轟成蜂窩。
無法阻止的死亡，無法挽回的街頭暗殺與對決，這條貧窮、醜陋、每個人都看不起每個人的街上，派崔克與安琪決定要為這個死去的女人做點事，為她從未被人需要的人生找回公道。
即便用盡力氣去恨，這世界也不會停止運轉

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.
Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.
A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.
Now a major motion picture directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring an A-list cast including Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laura Linney, and Marcia gay Harden—this New York Times bestselling novel from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.

The master of the new "noir," Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel. A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all -- and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory where nothing is sacred -- a land of lies and corruption where trusting anyone could get them killed ... where taking any step could be their last.

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As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir -- and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester. A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find the missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about justice. About right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn't just a dirty business ... it's deadly.

Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brought up by the world's worst mother, neglected throughout her childhood, she has nonetheless blossomed into a formidably intelligent young woman. A young woman so bright that she can seemingly out-think and out-manoeuvre anyone...For Patrick, the case leads him down Boston's darkest, most dangerous streets ? and into a world of shocking secrets that will threaten not only Amanda's life, but also his own and that of his partner Angie Gennaro.

In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.

《黑暗,带我走》内容简介：帕特里克与安琪的新委托人是波士顿一位声誉卓著的精神科医师。她无故被黑帮恶意寻仇，惊恐度日，走投无路。这对私家侦探深深明白得罪黑帮，会面临多么冷酷的报复。可他们仍然没有料到，一股极度邪恶的力量将伺机出击，大肆杀戮。
埋藏多年的龌龊秘密终于暴露；透过一连串血腥命案，邪恶之手将污染一切——也污染真相。

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《神祕河流》的作者丹尼斯．勒翰，在出版 2001 年的《神祕河流》及2003 年的《隔離島》兩本單集完結作品前，曾在上個世紀末的九○年代，出版過五本系列作品；這個被稱為「Kenzie/Gennaro」的系列，以派崔克及安琪這對一男一女的偵探搭檔為主角、龍蛇雜處的波士頓大城為背景，敘述殘酷街區上的人性故事。《戰前酒》是這個系列的第一本，也是丹尼斯?勒翰的開筆之作。
《戰前酒》講的是一個尋人任務。三個地方政治角頭，委託波士頓最佳偵探搭檔派崔克和安琪找出一個偷走機密文件的黑人清潔婦。派崔克和安琪原想，只要動用黑白兩道的人脈，查出清潔婦落腳所在，打個電話通知雇主，任務即可圓滿結束，賞金即可輕鬆落袋。
沒想到，清潔婦拿走的不是機密文件，而是幾張藏在不知名地點的照片。想要這幾張照片的也不只是三個政客，還有兩個彼此廝殺的幫派首腦。才剛接到任務不到二十四小時，派崔克就遭到狙擊，才剛和清潔婦碰面，她就慘死在派崔克面前，胸膛被轟成蜂窩。
「我隱約指望時間靜止，每個人都停在原地，屏氣凝神等待進一步的消息。但是大家仍繼續吃午餐、打電話、取消牙醫掛號、剪頭髮、預約晚餐，忙自己的工作。
事發到現在四小時，一切又恢復正常。封鎖障礙已移走，所有的問題都問過了，所有的目擊證人也留下了姓名。藍帽子被抬上救護車載走，珍娜被裝進屍袋，拉上拉鍊，送去太平間。
然後有個人過來用水管沖掉水泥地上的血跡，沖得一乾二淨。」
「父權的傾壓、愛情的不對等、階級間的相互仇視、誤解、利用及關懷，在所謂的美好童年當中可能留下必須一輩子與之抗衡的印記，在感情當中可能生出不可解的張狂暴力。這些混在《戰前酒》裡頭的原料，完全取材自你我浸泡其中的現實生活，像是一杯後勁極強的烈酒，愈是回味，感觸就愈是層出不窮……」一一臥斧