

Mystic River
Author: Dennis Lehane
Narrator: Scott Brick
Unabridged: 15 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 12/09/2008
Categories: Fiction, Crime, Literary Fiction, Women
Author: Dennis Lehane
Narrator: Scott Brick
Unabridged: 15 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 12/09/2008
Categories: Fiction, Crime, Literary Fiction, Women
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.
Right up there with Shutter Island. Loved the book, and loved the movie even more!
I bought a hardback copy of Mystic River when it first came out, and I’ve been recommending it to everyone I know who has the slightest interest in crime fiction ever since. Oddly enough, it’s been almost 20 years since I first read the book, and I’d never revisited it until now. I love it, but ther......more
After Sean Penn won the Oscar for best actor, Tim Robbins for best actor in a supporting role and Clint Eastwood was nominated for best director, plus many more nominations for those involved in the filming, I knew I needed to watch this movie. And I eventually did, quite a few years ago. It was gre......more
Just before picking this book up - my first Lehane (it won't be my last) - I came across a quote by him illuminating the working-class, blue-collar nature of noir: In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. I love this quote. It slices right to the heart of who......more
5★ “Four in the morning, and she was more awake than she’d been in years. She was Christmas-morning-when-you’re-eight kind of awake. Her blood was caffeine. Your whole life, you wished for something like this. You told yourself you didn’t, but you did. To be involved in a drama.” The story isn’t about......more
Every adult human being has the chance to choose a personally favored path of life (considering it isn't predeterminated by illnesses, accidents etc.), but the general direction this path heads towards will usually already be marked during childhood: This might be the idea which provoked Dennis Leha......more