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The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything—their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives—to find a little girl lost.

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As they say in Spanish,

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what's one more spot to a tiger? Anyway ... . If this book wasn't in a genre that in the end saturated me, I would give it five stars. The style is good (perhaps a weeny little macho-stereotyped), the moral problem posed is genuine and deep, as a mistery i'ts OK, and nowhere does the pace slow down. Read it if you can. It's one of the best. Better, I think, than most Scandinavians (and US, it goes without saying) ones.

Absolutely engrossing!!

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I had a hard time putting down this book. It raised moral and ethical issues all wrapped up in a tale of mystery and suspense. The surrounds the disappearance of a four year old who belongs to a worthless mother. What has become of her? Is she dead or alive. The answers to these questions are answered in the final parts of the book, but the ethical and morality issues dealt with remains with the reader forever.

Moral Questions

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This book genuinely surprised me. It took a while to catch my interest at first, but it was good enough to keep me reading. The last fifty pages, though, were absolutely gut-wrenching, in the way you want a book to be gut-wrenching. The characters are faced with a huge moral dilemma, where there is no easy answer, no option that seems palpable, but a decision must be made. Action must be taken. And the rest of their lives, the characters are left to wonder if they did the right thing. And ...more This book genuinely surprised me. It took a while to catch my interest at first, but it was good enough to keep me reading. The last fifty pages, though, were absolutely gut-wrenching, in the way you want a book to be gut-wrenching. The characters are faced with a huge moral dilemma, where there is no easy answer, no option that seems palpable, but a decision must be made. Action must be taken. And the rest of their lives, the characters are left to wonder if they did the right thing. And we, as the audience are left with that same question. What is right? Is that determined by popular vote? Lawmakers? Each person individually? If there is absolute morality, where do we find it in those sticky situations that have no easy answer? I'll be thinking about this book for a while. It contains pervasive language throughout and disturbing images

Good writing but it does require suspension of belief	Customer Rating:
I find it difficult to digest that the police cop and the criminals staked out Amanda's house at the same time.

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After reading the first couple of chapters of this book, I lost interest, too wordy. Took too long to get to the missing girl. Too descriptive in many pages, gets boring. The very end of the book picked up when we learn where the child is. If it wasn't so descriptive maybe it would have been a faster read. Maybe too many characters.