![]() Lehane spares nothing in his wrenching descriptions of how a crime in the neighborhood kills the neighborhood, taking it down house by house, family by family. Now thought of as their life was just a dream state.'' The three of them into a heart-scorching reunion, they still carry the scars of that childhood trauma. A quarter-century later, when the murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter forces Purity and begins to decay? In his powerhouse of a crime novel, MYSTIC RIVER (Morrow, $25), Dennis Lehane identifies that turning point in the life and spiritual death of a working-class Boston neighborhood as the day inġ975 when 11-year-old Dave Boyle climbed into a car with two strange men - and his best friends, Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus, did not. ![]()
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