Moonlight Mile

　　愛曼達．麥克雷迪再度失蹤了。十二年前，她失蹤過一次，靠著派崔克和安琪的協助，小女孩找回來了。但是，要不要將孩子送回失職的母親身邊，卻撕裂了派崔克與安琪的關係。

　　如今，十六歲的愛曼達力爭上游，在學校表現傑出，眼看就要掙脫她的窮困出身，但是突然之間女孩下落不明，失去聯絡長達兩週。一如當年，愛曼達的舅媽又一次出現在派崔克面前，懇求他再次找回女孩。然而，誰也不知道這個求救的呼聲是晚了兩週，抑或是晚了十二年？

　　多年來，派崔克和安琪一直無法平息當年決定帶來的良心苛責，如今他們將再次面對偵探生涯中最難以釋懷的案件，循著這十二年積累下來的祕密和謊言，他們踏進波士頓藍領社區中最黑暗的巷弄，深入最絕望的人心。即便派崔克和安琪相信這次事情會有不同的發展，即便他們誓言找出愛曼達，親眼看見她安全無虞，但他們卻絕想不到「做對的事」竟是領他們踏入犯罪世界的漩渦，而這回捲入的不只有愛曼達、派崔克、安琪，更包括他們所愛之人的性命。

　　回家之路，竟如此遙遠、朦朧

　　Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl — only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home.

　　Now Amanda is sixteen — and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. Yet Amanda's aunt is once more knocking on Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, clever young woman — a woman who hasn't been seen in weeks.

　　Haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most. Their search leads them into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, a mentally unstable crime boss and his equally demented wife, a priceless, thousand-year-old cross, and a happily homicidal Russian gangster. It's a world in which motives and allegiances constantly shift and mistakes are fatal.

　　In their desperate fight to confront the past and find Amanda McCready, Kenzie and Gennaro will be forced to question if it's possible to do the wrong thing and still be right or to do the right thing and still be wrong. As they face an evil that goes beyond broken families and broken dreams, they discover that the sins of yesterday don't always stay buried and the crimes of today could end their lives.

　　★本書中譯版《一月光哩的距離》由臉譜出版。

作者簡介

丹尼斯．勒翰　Dennis Lehane

　　一九六五年八月四日出生於美國麻州多徹斯特，愛爾蘭裔，現居住在波士頓。八歲便立志成為專職作家，出道前為了磨練筆鋒、攥錢維生，曾當過心理諮商師、侍者、代客停車小弟、禮車司機、卡車司機、書店門市人員等，以支持他邁向作家之路的心願。

　　一九九四年以小說《戰前酒》出道，創造了冷硬男女私探搭檔「派崔克∕安琪」系列，黑色幽默的對話與深入家庭、暴力、童年創傷的題材引起書市極大回響，五年內拿下美國推理界夏姆斯、安東尼、巴瑞、戴利斯獎等多項重要大獎，外銷二十多國版權，並以此系列寫下北美一百三十萬、全球兩百四十萬冊的銷售成績。

　　勒翰真正打入主流文學界，登上巔峰的經典之作是非系列作品《神祕河流》。小說受好萊塢名導克林伊斯威特青睞改拍成同名電影，獲奧斯卡六項提名，拿下最佳男主角、男配角兩項大獎，小說也因此一舉突破全球兩百五十萬冊的銷售佳績。二○○七年，好萊塢男星班艾佛列克重返編劇行列，取材勒翰的派崔克∕安琪系列第四作改拍成同名電影《Gone, Baby, Gone》（中文書名：再見寶貝，再見；中文片名：失蹤人口），首週便登上北美票房第六名。小班接受媒體訪問時表示，勒翰的作品氣氛懸疑、人物紮實，以寫實的筆法書寫城市犯罪與社會邊緣問題，是他將小說改編搬上大銀幕的主要原因，原著小說也隨之攻占紐約時報暢銷小說榜第三名。

　　二○一○年二月，勒翰另一部暢銷小說《隔離島》也搬上大銀幕，由馬丁史柯西斯執導、李奧納多狄卡皮歐主演，本片是兩人繼《神鬼無間》後再次攜手合作，這也是馬丁史柯西斯首次嘗試驚悚懸疑風格的影劇作品。

　　Dennis Lehane is the author of nine novels—including the New York Times bestsellers Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day—as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He and his wife, Angie, divide their time between Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida.