Mystic River

Lehane, Dennis

ISBN 10: 0694525057 ISBN 13: 9780694525058

Publisher: Harperaudio, 2001

Synopsis

Sean Devine must confront the world of violence and pain he tried to forget when his childhood friend's daughter is murdered, and the investigation brings him face-to-face with a vigilante killer and a man with a dangerous secret. (Tie-in to the motion picture directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laura Linney, and Marcia Gay Harden.) Read by Scott Brick. (Suspense)

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Review:

Dennis Lehane's Mystic River takes the material of the ordinary police procedural thriller and shapes it into heart-break. As boys, Jimmy, Dave and Sean were friends, until one day Dave was abducted by two men pretending to be cops, and was never quite the same again. As men, Dave is a damaged fantasist, safe in a quietly happy marriage; Jimmy a retired criminal making a good respectable living for the sake of his children; and Sean is the homicide cop who finds himself investigating the murder of Jimmy's eldest daughter Katie. This is not just a book about what becomes of the children who grow into adults; it is about what happens to a neighbourhood when the rules change, when an old established working-class district acquires gentrified espresso bars at one end and the beats of the city's most dangerous whores at the other. It is also a book about the tragedy of all sudden violent deaths; we never forget our sense of Katie as she was, dancing on the last night of her life--she is never just the corpse here, never just the object of mourning and investigation. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"Get Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. Boy, does he know how to write" (Elmore Leonard)

"Enormously impressive: page-turning but thoughtful; moving in its sad inevitability... One of the finest novels I've read in ages" (Peter Guttridge Observer)

"Heart-scorching... penetrating... a powerhouse of a novel" (The New York Times Book Review)

"One of the greats of crime writing" (Guardian)

"Lehane's best book by far. Like all his writing, it shimmers with great dialogue and a complex view of the world" (Newsweek)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperaudio
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0694525057
• ISBN 13: 9780694525058
• Binding: Audio Cassette