History YMMV / KenzieAndGennaroSeries

** ''A Drink Before the War'': [[BigBad Marion Socia]] was a two-bit pimp just years ago before he took over Dorchester's drug trade. Using drugs to brainwash [[ChildSoldiers kids into being his soldiers]], Socia showed no remorse in [[OffingTheOffspring putting a hit out on his own son Roland]] when the boy broke from Socia to form his own gang. Socia has his own wife murdered when she steals valuable photos from him: namely photos that show Socia pimping out Roland (then preteen, if not prepubescent) to a local politician. When the gang war goes badly, Socia attempts to get the photos so that he can blackmail Roland. When the heroes Angie and Patrick are against Socia, the police have them listen to a video of Socia [[ColdBloodedTorture viciously torturing]] a boy who got brave enough to wear a wire by cutting him and [[EyeScream taking out his eye]]. Despite coming from the poorest, most brutal part of Dorchester, Socia has no excuse for his actions. At his heart, he is nothing but a monster feeding on the misery of others.
** ''Darkness, Take My Hand'': [[BigBad Gerry Glynn]] is an egomaniacal SerialKiller with a [[AGodAmI god complex]], who discovered how much he loved killing after murdering his wife for pointlessly blaming her for their son's death by brain aneurysm. Realizing how much he enjoyed the experience, Glynn cast off all love and human morality he may have once possessed while believing that killing was more fun if he targeted the undeserving. Glynn tortured, crucified, blinded and mutilated his victims over the years while training other killers in his work, forming a twisted parody of the Holy Trinity with Glynn as the "father" who sent his disciples to kill innocents, as well as to target Patrick and Angie when they were on the case. When exposed, Glynn attempted to force Patrick to confront him publicly by holding a young mother and a [[WouldHurtAChild newborn baby]] at gunpoint with a bomb strapped to himself, fully willing to kill them if things did not go his way.

* MagnificentBitch: Amanda [=McCready=] in "Moonlight Mile". And she's ''sixteen''.

* ''Darkness, Take My Hand'': [[BigBad Gerry Glynn]] is an egomaniacal SerialKiller with a [[AGodAmI god complex]], who discovered how much he loved killing after murdering his wife for pointlessly blaming her for their son's death by brain aneurysm. Realizing how much he enjoyed the experience, Glynn cast off all love and human morality he may have once possessed while believing that killing was more fun if he targeted the undeserving. Glynn tortured, crucified, blinded and mutilated his victims over the years while training other killers in his work, forming a twisted parody of the Holy Trinity with Glynn as the "father" who sent his disciples to kill innocents, as well as to target Patrick and Angie when they were on the case. When exposed, Glynn attempted to force Patrick to confront him publicly by holding a young mother and a [[WouldHurtAChild newborn baby]] at gunpoint with a bomb strapped to himself, fully willing to kill them if things did not go his way.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Marion Socia]] from ''A Drink Before the War'' was a two-bit pimp just years ago before he took over Dorchester's drug trade. Using drugs to brainwash [[ChildSoldiers kids into being his soldiers]], Socia showed no remorse in [[OffingTheOffspring putting a hit out on his own son Roland]] when the boy broke from Socia to form his own gang. Socia has his own wife murdered when she steals valuable photos from him: namely photos that show Socia pimping out Roland (then preteen, if not prepubescent) to a local politician. When the gang war goes badly, Socia attempts to get the photos so that he can blackmail Roland. When the heroes Angie and Patrick are against Socia, the police have them listen to a video of Socia [[ColdBloodedTorture viciously torturing]] a boy who got brave enough to wear a wire by cutting him and [[EyeScream taking out his eye]]. Despite coming from the poorest, most brutal part of Dorchester, Socia has no excuse for his actions. At his heart, he is nothing but a monster feeding on the misery of others.

** Lionel and Beatrice [=McCready=]- he's a recovering alcoholic who's had to be a ParentalSubstitute to his niece because his sister is a neglectful, self-pitying drug addict and he [[spoiler:ends up in prison after he kidnaps her to spirit her away to a better home]]; she loses her husband [[spoiler:to prison]] and her son in a DUI, and is forbidden by law from talking to her niece despite caring about her welfare far more than her biological mother does.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:
** Patrick, at the end of ''Moonlight Mile'', telling Angie that after all they've been through, "my blessings outnumber my regrets".
** Stevie Zambuca's revelation, in "Prayers for Rain", that years ago, when TheIrishMob put a contract out on Patrick, Bubba walked into a mob hangout and told all those assembled that if anyone tried to collect on it, he'd [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge walk the streets killing every mobster he saw.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Gerry Glynn, Kevin Hurlihy and Alec Hardiman]] in "Darkness, Take My Hand". Evandro is just as dangerous, but he has a FreudianExcuse.

** Lionel and Beatrice [=McCready=]- he's a recovering alcoholic who's had to be a ParentalSubstitute to his niece because his sister is a neglectful, self-pitying drug addict and he [[spoiler:ends up in prison after he kidnaps her to spirit her away to a better home]]; she loses her husband [[spoiler:to prison]] and her son in a DUI, and is forbidden by law from talking to her niece despite caring about her welfare far more than her biological mother.

* MagnificentBitch: Amanda {{McCready}} in "Moonlight Mile". And she's ''sixteen''.

** Lionel and Beatrice {{McCready}}

* AlasPoorVillain: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-intentioned extremists]] [[spoiler: Jack Doyle and Remy Broussard]] in ''Gone Baby Gone''.

* MagnificentBitch: Amanda McCready in "Moonlight Mile". And she's ''sixteen''.

* TheWoobie: Karen Nichols in ''Prayers for Rain''.

* AlasPoorVillain: WellIntentionedExtremists [[spoiler: Jack Doyle and Remy Broussard]] in ''Gone Baby Gone''.

** A great deal of "Darkness, Take My Hand", but the description of the remains of [[spoiler: Jason Warren]] is probably the worst. (It's NightmareFuel in-universe as well; Patrick describes how the first cops on the scene ended up quitting the force soon after.)