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1997: Four-year-old Amanda Cready has gone missing in Boston…
Gone Baby Gone
What you need to know before your trail
Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready.
Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction, the police have uncovered nothing. And as the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone – vanished so completely that she seems never to have existed.
Then a second child disappears.
Confronted with a police force seething with lethal secrets, Kenzie and Gennaro soon discover that those who go looking for the missing may not come back alive.
Travel Guide
Visit the Boston of Gone Baby Gone
The brilliance of this story is that it’s both a film and a book so you have ample locations to visit and absorb . All locations are a lot nicer in real life too which is a bonus!
This is a story that takes you into the drug and underworld of the city. Certain characters frequent dodgy bars and when the private investigators delve into the case, they find that the mother of the missing girl is also familiar with such places. They trawl the bars and clubs of the areas and meet up with the lowlife of Boston, gang members and drug dealers.
The settings within Boston are mainly all real and there’s a lot of focus on the work of the private eyes. There’s a PR trail of the Boston underworld and the neighbourhood of the victim (which is not a nice area in the film)
Gritty and raw. Boston appears large and dangerous with its inner city problems like any other. The two sides of a city and the social divide are also settings and characters in this novel.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Gone Baby Gone
Destination/Location: Boston, MA Author/Guide: Dennis Lehane Departure Time: 1997
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