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, SeanDevine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange carpulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and somethingterrible happened--something that ended their friendship and changed all threeboys forever.Twenty-five years later, Seanis a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Daveis trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay --demons thaturge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Seanis 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 brutaljustice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter diedcovered in someone else's blood.A tense and unnerving psychologicalthriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faithand family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on acollision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.