Mystic River
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- USD 5.99
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- USD 5.99
Descripción editorial
De vrienden Sean, Jimmy en Dave groeien op in een volksbuurt van Boston. Hun vriendschap komt abrupt ten einde wanneer een van hen wordt ontvoerd door
twee mannen die zich voordoen als politieagent. Dit incident verandert het leven van de drie jongens voorgoed. Vijfentwintig jaar later brengt het lot hen weer bij elkaar. Sean is inmiddels rechercheur, Jimmy een ex-gevangene en Dave een psychisch beschadigde armoedzaaier. Als Jimmy's dochter vermoord wordt
gevonden, krijgt Sean de taak het onderzoek te leiden. Terwijl Sean de zaak volgens de regels van de wet probeert op te lossen, wordt hij keihard geconfronteerd met de wereld van geweld en criminaliteit die hij achter zich had gelaten.
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Lehane ventures beyond his acclaimed private eye series with this emotionally wrenching crime drama about the effects of a savage killing on a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Written with a sensitivity toward character that exceeds his previous efforts, the story tracks the friendship of three boys from a defining moment in their childhood, when 11-year-old Dave Boyle was abducted off the streets of East Buckingham and sexually molested by two men before managing to escape. Boyle, Jimmy Marcus and Sean Devine grow apart as the years pass, but a quarter century later they are thrust back together when Marcus's 19-year-old daughter, Katie, is murdered in a local park. Marcus, a reformed master thief turned family man, goes through a period of intense grief, followed by a thirst for revenge. Devine, now a homicide cop assigned to the murder, tries to control his old friend while working to make sense of the baffling case, which involves turning over the past as much as it does sifting through new evidence. In time, Devine begins to suspect Boyle, a man of many ghoulish secrets who has led a double life ever since the molestation. Lehane's story slams the reader with uncomfortable images, a beautifully rendered setting and an unnerving finale. With his sixth novel, the author has replaced the graphic descriptions of crime and violence found in his Patrick Kenzie-Angela Gennaro series (Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone) with a more pensive, inward view of life's dark corners. It's a change that garners his themes--regret over life choices, the psychological imprints of childhood, personal and professional compromise--a richer context and his characters a deeper exploration.
