Mystic River - Dennis Lehane Reviews

This book is so much better than the film! The first Dennis Lehane book I read was A Drink Before the War, which I loved because of its atmospheric quality. This is continued in his other novels, this one included. The writing is very visual, and you can see how it was considered ideal for a film. Somehow, Lehane manages to put intensely ...

I made the mistake of watching the movie adaption of Mystic River before beginning to read Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. The book is a lot better than the movie and has a lot of content that was left out of the movie adaption. The book centers around a group of three boys who take part in an incident while they grew up that was never spoke of ...

1975 - three 11 year old boys Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. They hung around together and played in the streets. One day a car pulls up. Two men emerge, saying they are policemen and that the boys are causing a nuisance and they need to go home. Two of the boys lie and say they live ...

Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and awkward hanger on Dave Boyle grew up together in a blue collar district of Boston. When they were 11 years old one of the boys was abducted within sight of the others with long reaching consequences for them all. My library has placed a handcuffs sticker on the spine to denote a detective story. However, ...