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Patrick Kenzie is married to Angela Gennaro. They have a little girl. They are trying to make ends meet, and in today's economy, are as scared as most people about how shaky their solvency really is. Patrick has been doing jobs for a big firm, hoping they hire him full time. They have been stringing him along; his personality and their corporate culture don't mesh perfectly. He does get the job done for them, just not always as politely as they'd like. Into their lives comes Beatrice McCready, again. She wants them to find Amanda, again. They'd done it once before, a dozen years ago. That case had not gone well, at least in terms of how Kenzie and Gennaro thought it should have been handled. Sometimes doing the legal thing and doing the right thing are not at all the same. For a change, Kenzie wants to take a pass and Gennaro wants him to find Amanda. Something about ultimate karma and the like. So, because she's his wife and one knows how things like that tend to go, Kenzie agrees to find Amanda, again. And he does. Fairly quickly, actually. This is not necessarily a good thing. Other people are looking for Amanda, and if Kenzie can find her, so can they. And they do. This doesn't make the situation clearer. If anything, it muddies the waters. There are plenty of bad guys, all of them looking for something they are convinced that Amanda has. Hostages are involved, threats to Kenzie's family are made, and Amanda seems relatively unconcerned. Kenzie is frantic - they have threatened his daughter. Lehane knows how to build suspense. He gives a brilliant lesson in MIDNIGHT MILE. The characters are well established; all he has to do is bring them into today, and this he does beautifully. The plot is as tangled as yarn after a cat's been at it. The denouement is as unexpected as the eye of a hurricane. One know it's coming, but it's not at all what one expects. Yet, looking back at the masterful set-up that Lehane does, you can backtrack from the end to the first step and know he's played fair. The mark of a master is all over MIDNIGHT MILE. § P.J. Coldren lives in northern lower Michigan where she reads and reviews widely across the mystery genre when she isn't working in her local hospital pharmacy.
Reviewed by P.J. Coldren, December 2010
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