Mystic River
The film tie-in edition of the electrifying NEW YORK TIMES bestseller.
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Mystic River Paperback ISBN: 9780553818246 Published: 01/12/2006 Imprint: Bantam Extent: 528 pages Subject: Crime & mystery $19.95 RRP
Synopsis
There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled 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 Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay – demons that urge him to do horrific things.When Jimmy Marcus' daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. His personal life unravelling, he must go back into a world he thought he'd left behind to confront not only the violence of the present but the nightmares of his past. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood…
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More News & BlogYou can now view the trailer for SHUTTER ISLAND. The film tie-in edition releases this September. Set in 1954 the film centers round an island in Boston's Outer Harbor that houses a federal institution for the criminally insane. Two U.S. marshals are dispatched to that facility to recapture a violent female escapee. They become stranded there as a major storm approaches and a series of...
Editorial Reviews
"Get Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. Boy, does he know how to write" - ELMORE LEONARD
"'Enormously impressive'" - Observer
"'A stylish, genuinely gripping whodunnit that will keep even the sharpest thriller fan asking questions until the very last page'" - The Mirror
"'One of the greats of crime writing'" - Guardian
"'Heart-scorching...penetrating...a powerhouse of a novel'" - New York Times Book Review
"'Mystic River may be definitively brutal, but it is also satisfyingly thoughtful'" - Irish Times
"Tightly plotted and explosively tense." - TIME OUT
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