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Mystic River
What you need to know before your trail
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened – something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.
Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay – demons that urge him to do horrific things.
When Jimmy Marcus’ daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. His personal life unravelling, he must go back into a world he thought he’d left behind. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, who came home the night Jimmy’s daughter died covered in someone else’s blood…
Travel Guide
Discover Boston with Mystic River
The story of Mystic River is sad on so many levels and shows the change of a community,a group of friends and a city from when a group of boys are childhood friends and later when they are adults. They are now working in Boston and pretty much keep to the same places they frequented as young boys. The parks and streets may have been replaced with pubs but the city is still hard, raw, working class and gritty on every level.
The story is set in the fictitious blue-collar Boston neighbourhood of ‘East Buckingham’. This is based on the real life suburbs of Charlestown, Southie, Brighton, and Dorchester itself.
The novel’s Beantown setting is captured as filming took place in and around Mattapan, Jamaica Plain and Brighton. For inside settings and the main bar, a warehouse was built from scratch in Canton.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Mystic River
Destination/Location: Boston, MA Author/Guide: Dennis Lehane Departure Time: 1980s, 2000s
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