Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane is a tense and unnerving psychological thriller.
What Vincent Delecroix Says: “Nothing to do with the story my novel is based on, but this magistral novel will haunt you for a very long time, not only because of its darkness and the thrilling evolutive situation it describes, but also for its universal (and frightening!) dimension dealing with culpability – which is one of the major themes of my novel. But, moerover, I find a parallel with what I tried to speak about: not only the innocence of the victim, but the way society or community needs to shape and build scapegoats and also the inexorable fate, which overpowers almost in mythic terms some people who seem to be designated from the beginning of times to be sacrified.”
What They Say: “Mystic River is both a murder mystery and a novel of character. Like the very best fiction, it is, in the end, about many things: grief, sin, karma, hope and the lack of hope, the inevitability of change, the primal importance of family ties, the vulnerability of children, and the countless ways in which past events continue to influence the present.” – Bill Sheehan
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