02090cam a2200229 4500 43623071 TxAuBib 20010723120000.0 160614s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u TxAuBib Lehane, Dennis. Mystic river / Dennis Lehane. 1st ed. New York : Harper Collins, 2001. 401 pgs ; 24 cm. Lehane then moves the narrative forward to a critical week in the summer of 2000. Sean Devine is now a homicide investigator for the Massachusetts State Police. His marriage has recently ended, and both his personal and professional lives are in disarray. The charismatic Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who has opted for the straight life and is raising a family and working as the proprietor of a local mom-and-pop grocery. Dave Boyle, whose life peaked during his glory days as a high school baseball star, is a husband and father who has drifted through a series of dead-end jobs and is struggling continuously with the poisonous impulses that are the primary legacy of his abduction. The lives of these men converge once again when Katie Marcus, Jimmy's oldest daughter, is murdered. As Jimmy grieves and plots revenge, Sean initiates a wide-ranging investigation that gradually illuminates the entire social structure of East Buckingham, a working-class neighborhood with its own peculiar history, myths, and tribal rituals. The investigation also raises troubling questions about the possible involvement of the deeply damaged Dave Boyle, whose path crossed Katie's on the night of her death. Dave's mysterious behavior and contradictory accounts of his actions make him a highly plausible suspect and set the stage for a violent -- and ironic -- denouement. Friendship in children Massachusetts Boston Fiction. Police Massachusetts Boston Fiction. Murder Massachusetts Boston Fiction. Boston (Mass) Fiction. Suspense fiction.