“Get Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. Boy does he know how to write.”
-Elmore Leonard
“A powerhouse of a...novel...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
“Dennis Lehane is the heir apparent. You read his stuff and think he's got the great ones—Chandler, Macdonald, Parker—watching over him as he writes every page. But his voice is an original.”
-Michael Connelly
“The hippest heir of Hammett and Chandler.”
-Publishers Weekly
“A gut-clenching winner...Lehane excites me....(he) has let loose with a stand alone novel of depth and fervent passion. 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
“Stylish...Mystic River is Lehane's best book...it shimmers with great dialogue and a complex view of the world.”
—Newsweek
“Engrossing...transcendant...'A'.”
-Entertainment Weekly
“(Dennis Lehane is one of) the very best young mystery writers.”
-Esquire
“A heartbreaker.”
-Boston Herald
“Dennis Lehane might be the best mystery writer we have in this country today.”
-Boston Magazine
“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
“(Lehane is) a mystery master...a tense, insightful whodunit...haunting.”
-New York Post
“The journey to the unsettling conclusion is as gripping as it is dark, as hard to take as it is impossible to put down.”
-Tampa Tribune
“Lehane is one of our best fiction writers period.”
-Booklist (starred review)
“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
“Lehane once again proves himself non-pareil in writing about the dark side of the human character...another winner. ”
-Library Journal starred review
“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
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