Mystic River
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When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in 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. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay-demons that urge him to do horrific things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into serious conflict with Jimmy. And then there is Dave, who came home covered in someone else's blood the night Jimmy's daughter died. While Sean attempts to use the law to return peace and order to the neighborhood, Jimmy finds his need for vengeance pushing him ever closer to a moral abyss from which he won't be able to return. A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love, loyalty, faith, and family.
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Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction
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Barry Award
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Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction
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Anthony Award
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Critical Praise for
Mystic River
"Dennis Lehane might be the best mystery writer we have in this country today."
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Boston magazine
“Heartbreaking....Like Bruce Springsteen’s song ‘The River,’ Lehane’s Mystic River looks back at what might have been, the ways in which the past impinges on the present. And like the song, you can’t get it out of your head. “Springsteen’s narrator says, “Now those memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true Or is it something worse?” Ask Jimmy Marcus, Dave Boyle, Sean Devine. Ask Dennis Lehane.”
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Orlando Sentinel
"Stylish...Mystic River is Lehane's best book...it shimmers with great dialogue and a complex view of the world."
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Newsweek
"A powerhouse of a...novel...heart-scorching...penetrating...(Lehane's) deeply scored characterizations of the three former friends carries the soul of this story...if you really want to know when innocence dies, just look these people in the eye."
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The New York Times Book Review
“(Lehane is) a mystery master...a tense, insightful whodunit...haunting.”
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New York Post
Praise for Mystic River, “A heartbreaker.”
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Boston Herald
Praise for Mystic River, “A powerhouse of a . . . novel . . . heart-scorching . . . penetrating.”
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New York Times Book Review
Praise for Mystic River, “A powerhouse of a...novel...heart-scorching...penetrating...(Lehane’s) deeply scored characterizations of the three former friends carry the soul of this story...if you really want to know when innocence dies, just look these people in the eye.”
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New York Times Book Review
“A spellbinding tale...a powerfully lacerating story, by an author who knows every block of the neighborhood and every hair on his character’s heads.”
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Kirkus Reviews
“An emotionally wrenching crime drama about the effects of a savage killing on a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood...Lehane’s story slams the reader with uncomfortable images, a beautifully rendered setting and an unnerving finale.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Menace charges the atmosphere of this crackling thriller.”
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People
“A gut-clenching winner. . . . His ability to create crystal clear portraits of humanity and then place them in the darker side of life is a writer’s true gift.”
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USA Today
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