MAY 2017 - AudioFile
If you listen to audiobooks in the car, prepare to find yourself sitting in the driveway with this one. Julia Whelan does a near flawless job delivering this palpitation-inducing psychological thriller from the great Dennis Lehane. She’s good at accents, switching ages and genders, and her pacing is impeccable. Rachel Childs, the only child of a beautiful, very smart, very damaged mother, is looking for her father, whose identity she never knew. Always a great setup, but Lehane is using it as a springboard to explain how Rachel falls into a totally different swamp of deceptions. Whelan struggles with pronouncing “atheneum,” and someone “demured” at one point instead of demurring, or this performance would be a bases-loaded home run. Maybe is anyway. B.G. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
James Lee Burke
The mystery and intrigue never let go; the twists and turns are engaging and unexpected all the way down the track.
New York Journal of Books
A ride you won’t want to miss.
The Guardian
With sharply acute characterization, this is classic Lehane.
Lithub
[Since We Fell] should have crime fiction fans busting out the bottle rockets and champagne. . . . It’s impossible not to succumb.
Kristin Hannah
Once you pick up a Dennis Lehane novel, you’re hooked. It’s just that simple. Since We Fell is a complex, compelling, page-turner of a novel from a master storyteller at the top of his game.
Richard Price
One doesn’t ‘read’ Since We Fell so much as plunge and tumble through its pages like a raft in white water. A sweet bullet of a book.
USA Today
The surfeit of plot twists and emotional baggage are buoyed by Lehane’s hard-boiled lyricism and peerless feel for New England noir.”
AARP Magazine
Another winner from the author of Mystic River. . . . A raucous mix of lust, greed, and betrayal.
Lee Child
Complex, tense, compelling, and an emotional and strategic hall of mirrors, where nothing is what it seems—but I would follow Dennis Lehane anywhere.
Kate Atkinson
The most thrilling novel I’ll read all year. Since We Fell is simmering with emotion, menace, and humor. I loved it.
Entertainment Weekly
[Lehane’s] work always combines pulp thrills with literary heart and sophistication.
Associated Press
Make no mistake, Since We Fell is crime fiction, filled with con men, murder, greed and revenge. But the love story gives this novel its heart.
Tana French
Lehane writes expert, compelling thrillers. . . . He’s one of the game changers who smashed the imaginary boundary between genre and literature, proving that we can have the best of both at once.
Wall Street Journal
Endlessly surprising. . . . [A] twisty tale.
Providence Journal
A riveting exercise in psychological suspense.
Gillian Flynn
Lehane has written two books-one, an insightful examination of the search for identity and belonging, and two, a thriller that constantly leaves you guessing-and then smashed them together into one terrific read.
Tampa Bay Times
A pleasantly twisted character study and a love story. . . . Lehane is in command of what he’s doing.
Washington Post
A pleasantly twisted character study and a love story. . . . Lehane is in command of what he’s doing.
New York Times
[Lehane] remains one of the great, diabolical thriller kings who seems intimately acquainted with darkness and can make it seep from the page.
USA Today
The surfeit of plot twists and emotional baggage are buoyed by Lehane’s hard-boiled lyricism and peerless feel for New England noir.”
Providence Journal
A riveting exercise in psychological suspense.
Wall Street Journal
Endlessly surprising. . . . [A] twisty tale.
Lithub
[Since We Fell] should have crime fiction fans busting out the bottle rockets and champagne. . . . It’s impossible not to succumb.
Washington Post
A pleasantly twisted character study and a love story. . . . Lehane is in command of what he’s doing.
Entertainment Weekly
[Lehane’s] work always combines pulp thrills with literary heart and sophistication.
New York Journal of Books
A ride you won’t want to miss.
The Guardian
With sharply acute characterization, this is classic Lehane.
Tampa Bay Times
A pleasantly twisted character study and a love story. . . . Lehane is in command of what he’s doing.
New York Times
[Lehane] remains one of the great, diabolical thriller kings who seems intimately acquainted with darkness and can make it seep from the page.
AARP Magazine
Another winner from the author of Mystic River. . . . A raucous mix of lust, greed, and betrayal.
Lee Child
Complex, tense, compelling, and an emotional and strategic hall of mirrors, where nothing is what it seems—but I would follow Dennis Lehane anywhere.
Associated Press
Make no mistake, Since We Fell is crime fiction, filled with con men, murder, greed and revenge. But the love story gives this novel its heart.
Associated Press Staff
Make no mistake, Since We Fell is crime fiction, filled with con men, murder, greed and revenge. But the love story gives this novel its heart.
Library Journal
12/01/2016
After a terrible public breakdown, reporter Rachel Childs retreats into herself until she has the good fortune to meet and marry charming businessman Brian. Then she sees something—or at least thinks she does—that puts her whole marriage in question. With a 500,000-copy first printing and a ten-city tour.
MAY 2017 - AudioFile
If you listen to audiobooks in the car, prepare to find yourself sitting in the driveway with this one. Julia Whelan does a near flawless job delivering this palpitation-inducing psychological thriller from the great Dennis Lehane. She’s good at accents, switching ages and genders, and her pacing is impeccable. Rachel Childs, the only child of a beautiful, very smart, very damaged mother, is looking for her father, whose identity she never knew. Always a great setup, but Lehane is using it as a springboard to explain how Rachel falls into a totally different swamp of deceptions. Whelan struggles with pronouncing “atheneum,” and someone “demured” at one point instead of demurring, or this performance would be a bases-loaded home run. Maybe is anyway. B.G. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
