Mystic River

The New York Times bestselling novel by Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unsettling psychological thriller about the impact of a brutal murder on three former friends in a close-knit working-class neighborhood in Boston.

As children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car stopped on their street. A boy got into the car, two were left behind, 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 small store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together while keeping 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 puts him at odds with Jimmy, who realizes that his old criminal impulses are tempting him to resolve the crime with brutal justice. And then there's Dave, who came home that night with another person's blood on him.

A thrilling and unsettling psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel about love and loyalty, faith and family, where people irrevocably shaped by the past collide with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.