num_pages: 324
description: 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 girlonly to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home.Now Amanda is sixteenand 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 womana 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.
language: English
title: Moonlight Mile
publisher: William Morrow