His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. When Jimmy’s daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -demons that urge him to do terrible things. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened-something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. At once a tense and unnerving psychological thriller, MYSTIC RIVER is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. While Sean Devine attempts to use the law to return peace and order to the neighbourhood, Jimmy Marcus finds his need for vengeance pushing him ever closer to a moral abyss from which he won't be able to return, and Dave's wife, Celeste, sleeps at night with a man she fears may very well be a monster, a monster who fathered her child and hides his true nature from everyone, possibly even himself. And then there is Dave Boyle, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve crime with brutal justice.

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. When Jimmy Marcus's daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned the case. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay - demons that urge him to do horrific things. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store.

Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys for ever. But then a strange car pulled up their street. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends.

You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane