The further and further I get into mastering the art of written storytelling, the more I realize that there are a lot of misconceptions about creativity. We often hear: "Boy, that writer sure is creative, I don't know where he gets those ideas" or "writers are all poets, they master language to create objects of beauty". Dennis Lehane is a writer that challenge both of these erroneous perceptions every time he writes down a word.
The proud Bostonian's novels are often complex, giving a feeling of a mathematical dissection of the plot, despite turning around very simple thematics. In fact, I'd say Dennis Lehane has only one thematic in his whole work: the human mind. He defies the misconception of the writer as a headless dreamer, because what Dennis Lehane truly is, is an expert of the dark corners of the human mind.
He's billed as a noir writer, which is accurate, but there is a tragedy to his novels that is groundbreaking to the movement. His spirited protagonist Patrick Kenzie has his moments of humor, but you always get the feeling from him that he tries to zone out the horrors he has to deal with from his private investigator work. I would recommend every novel of the Patrick Kenzie\Angela Gennaro novels, but they are all good. Prayer For The Rain is probably the best though.
You don't know what to read? Go to the book store, get Prayer For The Rain, Mystic River or Shutter Island, you will not be disappointed.
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