![]() ![]() The story chronicles the rise of Joe Coughlin from a low-level thug in the Boston mafia to running his own unit smuggling rum down in Ybor City, Florida. There are great pleasures indeed to be found within the pages of Live By Night. As a longtime fan and admirer of Lehane’s body of work, I say this with love: I might have cast my vote differently. Judges rectified this in 2013 when the Edgar award of Best Novel went to Lehane’s Live By Night, a mob caper set during the Prohibition era. For many years, Lehane’s work, while taking home many international literary accolades, failed to bring home the biggest prize in crime writing, the Edgar Award. ![]() Then he started producing other powerhouse novels like Shutter Island and Mystic River-books that brought alive the mean streets of the city and plumbed the darkness of the human heart. As a Boston native and crime fiction lover since childhood, I always felt like I got on the Dennis Lehane train early, with his superb first entry in the Kenzie and Gennaro PI series, A Drink Before the War. ![]()
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