Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane

 

After a break for vacation ...

This is a well-written, interestingly structured novel--the instigating event is like halfway through it, with the first half basically setting up *why* it's such an instigation. Stays in tight third person with the same character all the way through. There's more crime in this novel than it seems there will be for a long time, then it's all there, all at once. It's the first novel of Lehane's I've read that felt as though it was happening in the same world as "Until Gwen" (though it has no characters in common, that I can tell). It's also the first one that doesn't have a relentlessly downbeat ending.