Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novels--including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day--as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family.
A powerhouse...heart-scorching...penetrating...(Lehane's) deeply
scored characterizations of the three former friends carries the
soul of this story...if you really want to know when innocence
dies, just look these people in the eye.--The New York
Times Book Review
"I believe this to be the best crime novel in the English language.
The talent and craft at work in this fine novel are head-reeling.
Many of the paragraphs are sonnets, and the characters, both good
and evil, are among the best and most intriguing in American
literature." --James Lee Burke (in The Week
magazine)
Dennis Lehane might be the best mystery writer we have in this
country today.--Boston Magazine
Stylish...Mystic River is Lehane's best book...it shimmers with
great dialogue and a complex view of the
world.--Newsweek
"(Lehane is) a mystery master...a tense, insightful
whodunit...haunting."--New York Post
"A beast of a book that at once brings so many of society's woes
into focus while maintaining a deep and intimate portrait of its
multiple characters. I think the whole cast felt this way and all
got extremely invested in Clint's telling of it."--Sean
Penn on Mystic River, the book and the film
"A gut-clenching winner. . . . His ability to create crystal clear
portraits of humanity and then place them in the darker side of
life is a writer's true gift."--USA
Today
"A heartbreaker."--Boston Herald
"A spellbinding tale...a powerfully lacerating story, by an author
who knows every block of the neighborhood and every hair on his
character's heads."--Kirkus Reviews
"An emotionally wrenching crime drama about the effects of a savage
killing on a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston
neighborhood...Lehane's story slams the reader with uncomfortable
images, a beautifully rendered setting and an unnerving
finale."--Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
"Heartbreaking....Like Bruce Springsteen's song 'The River, '
Lehane's Mystic River looks back at what might have been, the ways
in which the past impinges on the present. And like the song, you
can't get it out of your head. "Springsteen's narrator says, "Now
those memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse Is
a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse?" Ask
Jimmy Marcus, Dave Boyle, Sean Devine. Ask Dennis
Lehane."--Orlando Sentinel
"Menace charges the atmosphere of this crackling
thriller."--People
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