Mystic River: A Novel

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.