This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping,
unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing
on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston
neighborhood.
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were
friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got
into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened--something
that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.
Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an
ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage
together and keep his demons at bay --demons that urge him to do
terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is
assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with
Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime
with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night
Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.
A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an
epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people
irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course
with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.
