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Threads in life
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Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
Price: US$ 25.00
(January 30, 2001)
Threads in life
"There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected."
Dennis Lehane has established himself as one of the most important mystery writers at work today. His first five books, all set in Boston, feature Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, whose complicated relationship adds spice to the cases they tackle. Now Lehane has taken a break from his series to write a separate story.
The setting is still Boston and the main characters are boys when we first meet them.
Twenty-five years ago, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. One day Dave Boyle got into a strange car. When he came back four days later, he was different in a way that destroyed his friendship with Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus and changed all three boys forever.
Now, 25 years later, Jimmy Marcus is a store owner with a prison record and mob connections. He still knows Dave Boyle, but he's lost touch with Sean Devine until the night his daughter Katie is found murdered and Sean, who is a cop, responds to the call.
Sean Devine attempts to use the law to return peace and order to the neighbourhood. 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. He would like to solve Katie's murder before Jimmy takes matter into his own hands.
Sean's investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who finds that his old criminal impulses (冲动) tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice.
And then there is Dave Boyle. Since the night he got in that car, Dave has had psychological problems. Dave's trying hard to keep his demons (恶魔) safely submerged (遮掩住的).
On the night Katie Marcus is killed, something else happens to Dave. He goes home covered with someone else's blood. Celeste, his wife, doesn't know what it is, but she has her suspicions. As these three men, each with their own secrets, get to know each other again, they find themselves on a collision course.
A tense psychological story, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.
About the author
Dennis Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He is the author of A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; Darkness Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone Baby Gone; and Prayers for Rain. He currently lives in Boston with his wife, Sheila.
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