Mystic River

Lehane, Dennis

4.17

144,955 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 0694524646 ISBN 13: 9780694524648

Publisher: Harperaudio, 2001

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 David Strathairn. (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." (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)

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