PRAYERS FOR RAIN by Dennis Lehane - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
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When
Patrick first meets Karen Nichols, she strikes him as the kind of woman
who irons her socks ‚an innocent from a protected upbringing, untouched
by tragedy. But six months later Karen commits suicide by leaping from
one of Boston's most cherished monuments. Patrick finds himself
wondering what can alter someone so drastically, so quickly, that
suicide seems her only option. Yet what begins as idle curiosity soon
becomes obsessive as Patrick suspects that the tragic events that befell
Karen during the last months of her life ‚ an "accident" that destroyed
her fiance, the loss of her job, her apartment, and eventually her mind
may not have been as random as they first appeared. Enlisting the aid
of his ex-partner and ex-flame, Angela Gennaro, as well as that of his
friend, the lethally unbalanced Bubba Rogowski, Patrick enters into a
treacherous game of cat-and-mouse with a man who, instead of merely
killing his victims, prefers to make them wish they were dead. As the
stakes grow higher and more personal, they find they might be fighting a
losing battle against an enemy the law can't touch, who is always one
step ahead of them, who is gradually learning their weaknesses, their
loves, and is determined to tear their worlds apart.