Mystic River

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane When they were children Sean
Devine Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then
a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into
the car two did not 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 corner
store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together
and keep his demons at bay — demons that urge him to do
terrible things. When Jimmys daughter is found murdered
Sean is 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 brutal justice.
And then there is Dave who came home the night Jimmys
daughter died covered in someone elses blood. A tense and
unnerving psychological thriller Mystic River is also an
epic novel of love and loyalty faith and family in which
people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a
collision course with the darkest truths of their own
hidden selves.