![]() ![]() Then Jimmy's daughter is savagely murdered.įor a time, I thought I was reading George P Pelecanos, the other hip noir chronicler of blue-collar lives. ![]() Sean is a cop, Jimmy is an ex-con running a café and Dave is struggling to fight his demons. What happens to Dave in the four days he's missing changes him and the nature of their friendship irrevocably. Dave gets into the car, Sean and Jimmy don't. In the Seventies, three boys are playing in the street when a car draws up. ![]() With Mystic River, his first 'stand alone' novel, he stays in the working-class neighbourhoods to tell a powerful story of childhood friendship and inexorably doomed lives. Like the late George V Higgins, his beat, in his five novels featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, is blue-collar Boston. In the relatively short time since his Shamus Award-winning debut, A Drink Before the War, Lehane, a 35-year-old from Boston, has established himself as a major noir writer, the one Michael Connelly calls 'the heir apparent'. Dennis Lehane is one of the wonder-boys of hardboiled US crime fiction. ![]()
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