num_pages: 527
description: There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in 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 Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -demons that urge him to do horrific things. When Jimmy Marcus' daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. His personal life unravelling, he must go back into a world he thought he'd left behind to confront not only the violence of the present but the nightmares of his past. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood...
language: English
title: Mystic River
titlecomplete: Mystic River
characters: Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, Dave Boyle
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Drama, Novels, Audiobook
ratings_count: 142372
places: Boston, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Dilys Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 3. Platz International, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats hors Québec
publisher: Bantam