Dennis Lehane Books in Order

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired by powerful politicians to recover documents stolen by a cleaning woman. The search drags them through gang territory and City Hall back rooms, forcing them to choose sides in a brutal fight over race, power, and secrets.

Kenzie and Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist and soon find a trail of savagely mutilated bodies. The killings point toward a serial murderer who should be locked away, tying new crimes to the investigators' own violent past.

A dying billionaire hires Patrick and Angie to find his missing daughter, along with the private eye who vanished while tracking her. Following the trail from Boston to Florida, they uncover a web of corporate grief counseling schemes, stolen money, and betrayals that make trust a deadly risk.

When four-year-old Amanda McCready disappears from a working-class Boston neighborhood, her aunt begs Kenzie and Gennaro to help. What begins as a missing-child case becomes a wrenching moral dilemma about neglect, rescue, and who has the right to decide where a child truly belongs.

After a former client leaps from a Boston landmark, Patrick Kenzie learns she was stalked and systematically broken down before her death. His investigation exposes a meticulous predator who ruins lives for sport and is more than willing to turn that focus on Patrick.

Childhood friends Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle are torn apart after Dave is abducted on their Boston street. Twenty-five years later, Jimmy's daughter is murdered and Sean, now a homicide detective, must investigate, dragging all three men back into buried trauma and suspicion.

Edited by Otto Penzler, this football-themed mystery anthology combines a novella by David Baldacci with thirteen suspense stories from writers including Dennis Lehane, Lawrence Block, and Anne Perry. The tales bring crime, investigation, and danger to playing fields, players, and fans.

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels travels to Shutter Island, home to a hospital for the criminally insane, to find a missing murderer. Trapped by a storm, he uncovers sinister experiments and begins to question the staff, his partner, and even his own memories.

This collection brings together five gritty short stories and a two-act play that trace small-town grudges, damaged families, and bad decisions that spiral into violence. Different settings and eras share the same question: how far people will go once love, money, or pride are on the line.

Set in Boston and Tulsa at the end of World War I, this novel follows patrolman Danny Coughlin and Black laborer Luther Laurence through labor unrest, racism, and political crackdowns. Their lives intersect around the 1919 Boston police strike, where loyalty, survival, and justice collide.

Bob, a solitary Boston bartender, finds a battered pit bull puppy in a trash can and reluctantly takes it in with help from wary neighbor Nadia. When the dog's violent former owner comes looking, Bob is pushed into a dangerous clash with local toughs and the bar's criminal backers.

Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, this annual crime-and-mystery anthology collects stories published during 2009 alongside Jon L. Breen’s overview of the year. The lineup includes Dennis Lehane’s “Animal Rescue” and Mary Higgins Clark’s “The Tell-Tale Purr.”

Twelve years after finding missing toddler Amanda McCready, Patrick and Angie—now married with a daughter—learn that Amanda has vanished again as a brilliant but secretive teenager. Revisiting the case that haunts them, they follow a trail of lies through Boston's underworld while questioning their past choice.

Lee Child and series editor Otto Penzler select twenty crime and mystery short stories from a wide range of settings and styles. Dennis Lehane’s contribution, “Animal Rescue,” sits alongside work by established names and newer voices.

A suburban woman trapped with a corrupt, abusive husband turns to a professional killer for help. As the plan unfolds, the story slowly reveals who is really being used and what vengeance looks like when greed and moral rot have hollowed everyone out.

Edited by Otto Penzler, this essay collection gathers mystery writers’ memories and critical reflections on Robert B. Parker, his detective Spenser, and the wider Parker canon. Dennis Lehane contributes alongside writers including Ace Atkins, Lawrence Block, and S.J. Rozan.

Joe Coughlin, the rebellious son of a respected Boston police captain, turns from petty theft to Prohibition-era bootlegging. Prison, gang alliances, and a posting to rum-soaked Tampa transform him into a powerful crime boss, even as love and conscience threaten to undo his hard-won empire.

Harry Bosch flies to Boston chasing a lead in a long-cold murder while local PI Patrick Kenzie hunts the same man over a missing seventh-grader. When their paths collide outside the suspect's house, each detective must trade information and instincts to solve both crimes.

Lonely bartender Bob Saginowski works at a mob-run bar in Brooklyn that doubles as a money drop. After he rescues an abused puppy and a seemingly simple robbery goes bad, Bob is pulled into a dangerous standoff with the Chechen mob, a violent ex-con, and his own buried past.

Edited by Joe Clifford, this crime-fiction anthology asks each contributor to use a Bruce Springsteen song as a creative springboard. Its stories range through noir-inflected lives of crime, hope, and redemption; Dennis Lehane contributes “State Trooper.”

Guest editor James Patterson selects twenty mystery stories shaped by crime, suspense, and morally pressured characters. The volume includes Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly’s collaboration, which brings Harry Bosch and Patrick Kenzie together in a missing-child case.

Ten years after building a bootlegging empire, Joe Coughlin now serves as trusted consigliere to a Tampa crime family and devoted father to his young son. Warned that someone close has ordered his murder, he has two weeks to untangle shifting loyalties before the past collects its debt.

Rachel Childs is a former journalist whose on-air breakdown leaves her housebound and anxious, seemingly saved by a kind, steady husband. One chance sighting cracks that trust, pulling her into a twisting investigation of who he really is and how far she'll go to protect herself.

A man who endured relentless bullying as a child believes he’s finally moved on—until a chance encounter suggests his tormentor has prospered unchecked. Torn between letting the past lie and exacting overdue justice, he discovers that revenge rarely plays out the way it’s imagined.

This crime-fiction anthology explores the urge to collect and the extreme behavior it can inspire. Its stories range from coveted celebrity artifacts and private letters to lost television shows, with collectors whose desire to possess the perfect object turns perilous.

In the sweltering summer of 1974, South Boston single mother Mary Pat Fennessy is barely keeping the lights on when her teenage daughter goes missing. The same night, a young Black man dies on the subway tracks, and Mary Pat's search forces her to confront the Irish mob and her own community's racism.