The American Dennis Lehane He is a writer with a vocation as a screenwriter. In fact, he alternates his taste for the novel with the scripting of series or even makes his first steps in the theater. What ends up happening in these cases is that the writer ends up scripting his novels and the scriptwriter is capable of creating authentic plots of magnificent translation to the screen or to the tables.
Be that as it may, this work between communicating vessels serves to distinguish between Dennis Lehane as a magnificent storyteller. Halfway between the thriller and the Novelty, his narrative proposals reach an epic level of tension. Many are those who end up enjoying the creative genius of this author through cinema, but the truth is that once again it is worth approaching his stories from their initial literary version.
One of the great virtues of Dennis is that transfer of his closest environment to the corresponding fiction. From the neighborhoods of Boston to complex, very human sensations multiplied by overflowing contexts. Love carried to its last consequences, the uprooting capable of alienating the emigrant, the heaviness of reason when the reality around the character seems to break down at times.
Lehane is a bestselling writer who, in addition to telling great stories for masses of readers, also manages to transmit, reach the reader as if it were a more transcendent reading. The plot always moves lightly while the characters instantly latch on to describe their emotions and sensations to you. In short, a different writer.
Top 3 best Dennis Lehane novels
Mystic River,
The epic of everyday life when it turns into tragedy. A great success from this author. The resource of childhood to launch ourselves and face the most ancestral fears, the temperaments that are forged by trauma. Jimmy, Dave and Sean had that encounter with evil, with the devil himself capable of transforming a childhood in an instant.
He was the wolf, only that Dave will be the victim who will suffer to the greatest degree that awakening to the crude world of the wicked. And yet that spirit of evil seems to go on for years. When the children are adults and have their lives, Jimmy's daughter turns up hideously dead.
What awakens this fatal event brings the boys back together to that moment when the wolf approached them to finally kidnap Dave and make him a victim for life. This novel is the best example of the aforementioned, a kind of thriller that finally delves deeper into sensations, emotions, frustrations, alienation and uprooting.
Shutter Island
What separates our "normal" life from madness? An unpredictable trigger can end up destabilizing us. We are fragile and unable to cope with tragedies. But of course ..., the story does not begin precisely at this existential extreme.
From the outset we know federal agent Teddy Daniels, it is 1954, in the middle of the cold war. Daniels' mission is to find out what happens in the asylum on the gloomy Shutter Island. His partner Chuck Aule accompanies him at every step of the investigation.
The problem is that the foundation of the investigation, the disappearance of Rachel Solando, seems to be blurred in favor of many other disjointed discoveries that Agent Daniels himself will discover.
Until the ultimate truth ends up exploding in his hands and in his mind blocked by the maddening reality.
Live at night
Dennis Lehane is an expert at presenting us with fascinatingly contradictory characters, capable of harboring love and hate in equal measure. The balance of his characters, their magic resides in that essential dichotomy, in the way in which the credibility of each reaction or decision transcends the character to end up reaching ourselves as readers, finally convincing us that we are one thing and its opposite, depending on the moment.
Joe Coughlin lost his way, it is what happens from time to time, that the children do not end up discovering any interest in what is done by honorable parents like yours, captain of the police. But all is not always lost.
Emma Gould could achieve with love what Joe's parents could never straighten out. But sometimes it ends up being late for everything. A gangster can't control so many guns that they end up pointing them.
Other recommended books by Dennis Lehane
Coup de grace
The grace of the powerful, the magnanimity of those who hold morality and power, like Caesar's finger. The question is to delve into how this government of consciences can be maintained above the minimum consideration of humanity... If it is through a Lehane capable of contributing his acidic, melancholic, critical, hopeless point until finally highlighting the glimmer of hope like the lifeline in the dark ocean.
Boston, summer 1974. One night, Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same night, a young black man is found dead, hit by a train under mysterious circumstances.
The two events seem unrelated, but Mary Pat, driven by her desperate search for her daughter, begins to ask questions that annoy Marty Butler, head of the Irish mafia, and the men who work for him. Set in the hot, tumultuous months when the desegregation of the city's public schools erupted into violence, Coup de Grace is a magnificent thriller, a brutal depiction of crime and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. .
A drink before the war
Propitious victims are, in the noir genre, the most perfect scapegoats from which seasoned investigators can discover other types of frameworks that someone intended to bury...
Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple task: discover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has stolen confidential documents. But the couple learns that Jenna has no documents. She has a son and a husband who lead street gangs, an angry sister, and a photo of a politician with her husband in a hotel room. As she helps Patrick, Jenna is gunned down. Gang war is immediately declared and the two detectives plan to avenge the innocent and punish the guilty.
A Drink Before the War is a tour of a city where bigotry and institutionalized corruption are often the norm. A vibrant police thriller that is also a mirror of our world.
