Mystic River Book Review. Even the 1975 prologue is bleak. In his taut, twisty novels set in the modern era, like the magisterial mystic river, lehane burrows into the dark psyches of his characters without stopping to show how they lace up their shoes.
It was a normal day like any other until it wasn’t. The site's critics consensus reads: With mystic river, clint eastwood has rebounded nicely from the failure of his mediocre previous effort, blood work.
A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, mystic river is also an epic novel of love, loyalty, faith, and family.
With mystic river, clint eastwood has rebounded nicely from the failure of his mediocre previous effort, blood work. A murder surrounding three old friends that brings back loose threads and dissonance, dennis lehane’s mystic river is a testament that defies the conventionality of the quintessential mystery novel. Mystic river is a riveting character driven crime thriller about three boys, one abducted and forever scarred with what he endured, all grown just glad in a way that i also hadn't seen the film and blown a powerfully compelling ending that managed to stay just out of. A child kidnapping that sparked a small town community;