Read how the colorful characters in this story are involved in Ave Marie's choices, and how her life is suddenly altered by these changes Mystic River by Dennis Lehane is a passionate and ambitious novel of crime, punishment and misplaced revenge. The time is 1975 in blue-collar Boston. Three boys are bound for life over an experience that happens to one of them. The story then moves on to the summer of 2000. The three friends lives converge once again when one of their teenaged daughters is murdered.
Mystic River is both a murder mystery and a wonderful novel of character.
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter is an expertly crafted and fascinating tale of social conflict and madness in the South. In A Dry Season by Peter Robinson. A severe drought uncovers a corpse submerged for 50 years in a local reservoir. Detective Inspector Alan Banks investigates the murder in this fascinating story that blends the past with the present. Shipping News by Annie Proulx - after many personal tragedies, Quoyle, who believes he is the odd man out, moves from upstate New York to Newfoundland to start a new life.