The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history.

In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.

One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched—asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business.

Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife. Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era—Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover. Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time—including the Spanish Influenza pandemic—and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened—something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Now, years later, murder has tied their lives together again . . .

Set at the end of the Great War, "The Given Day" offers an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future.

波士顿，1926年。
爵士乐在弥漫，酒在流动，子弹在飞，一个男人打算为这个世界打上自己的标记。
乔•考克林，身为高级警官的儿子，却加入了当地最有势力的黑帮。
然而，他总说自己“不是黑帮分子，而是法外之徒”，不想过别人定义好的生活，想创造属于自己的规则。
他的夜色人生徐徐展开，从华丽炫目的爵士时代波士顿，到欲望横流的佛罗里达州坦帕，再到古巴的酷热街道。虽然危机四伏，但好在有兄弟，有姑娘，还有音乐与美酒。
他知道死亡终将来临，但在那之前，他决心好好地、痛快地活下去。

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America...A powerful, deeply moving novel, Live By Night is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.

★...沉埋我們的記憶 洗凈我們的罪惡...
二十五年前 一場不幸的意外 讓三個童年摯友分道揚鑣...
二十五年后 另一場死亡的悲劇 讓三個人重開溝通的契機...
在命運這條神秘的河流里
是否注定了三人永恒的漂流失依
★原著改編為同名電影，由克林伊斯威特（Clint Eastwood）導演，西恩潘（Sean Penn）、提姆羅賓斯（Tim Robbins）及凱文貝肯（Kevin Bacon）分飾書中吉米、大衛與西恩三主角。
★改編電影榮獲金球獎、奧斯卡最佳男主角西恩潘，最佳男配角提姆羅賓斯。並在奧斯卡獲得最佳影片、最佳導演、最佳改編劇本、最佳女配角的提名。

It's 1918. Boston. A city in turmoil as soldiers return home from World War One, bringing with them an epidemic of Spanish influenza. Danny Coughlin is the son of one of Boston's most powerful police captains. An undercover cop, he is hunting for revolutionaries and anarchists who, in the aftermath of war, are pledged to overthrow the city's ruling classes. But Danny soon finds his ideals compromised as, drawn into the conflict, his family starts to question where his loyalties really lie. Luther Lawrence is on the run. Having survived a murderous confrontation with a crime boss, he lands a job in the Coughlin household. But it isn't long before his dangerous past and his tenuous present are on a life-threatening collision course. As the city goes into meltdown, Danny and Luther must confront the storm of violence that threatens to engulf them if each is to survive...

時值1954 年。美國聯邦執法官泰迪·丹尼爾斯和他的新搭檔恰克·歐爾，來到隔離島，島上的艾許克里夫醫院是一所專門收容心神喪失的刑事罪犯的醫院。泰迪和恰克此行是為了調查一樁病患失蹤的案件。一個名叫瑞秋·索蘭度、親手殺死自己三個小孩的女性殺人魔，在重重牢籠、重重戒護之下脫逃了，而且就藏身在隔離島某處。
一個威力驚人的殺手級颶風毫不留情的侵襲隔離島，但這個令人匪夷所思的案子，在泰迪和恰克心底，隱藏著更大的威脅和不安──到底傳聞中那些支解人體的實驗，那些切除前腦葉、聳人聽聞的手術，究竟如何偷偷進行?究竟是不是真的？
沒有人能毫髮無傷的離開隔離島，因為艾許克里夫醫院完全不是如表面所見那一回事。事實上，就連泰迪·丹尼爾斯也一樣。

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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades -- with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.

Private detective partners Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find Jenna Angeline, a missing black cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential state documents, but as their investigation becomes complicated by rival gang leaders, extortion, child prostitution, and assassination reaching to the highest levels of government, they discover that their target has been framed.

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple-murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.

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時值1954 年。美國聯邦執法官泰迪?丹尼爾斯和他的新搭檔恰克?歐爾，來到隔離島，島上的艾許克里夫醫院是一所專門收容心神喪失的刑事罪犯的醫院。泰迪和恰克此行是為了調查一樁病患失蹤的案件。一個名叫瑞秋?索蘭度、親手殺死自己三個小孩的女性殺人魔，在重重牢籠、重重戒護之下脫逃了，而且就藏身在隔離島某處。
一個威力驚人的殺手級颶風毫不留情的侵襲隔離島，但這個令人匪夷所思的案子，在泰迪和恰克心底，隱藏著更大的威脅和不安──到底傳聞中那些支解人體的實驗，那些切除前腦葉、聳人聽聞的手術，究竟如何偷偷進行?究竟是不是真的？
沒有人能毫髮無傷的離開隔離島，因為艾許克里夫醫院完全不是如表面所見那一回事。事實上，就連泰迪?丹尼爾斯也一樣。
＊大師之作，佳評如潮
「《神祕河流》將勒翰提升到新境界；《隔離島》則達到更高的水準。」──《丹佛郵報》
「種種轉折一再製造驚奇……一個毛骨悚然、震驚不已、原創性十足的故事……令人難以抗拒……」──《紐約時報》
「如果勒翰的《神祕河流》已讓你目眩神迷，那看完《隔離島》肯定讓你有全身通電之感。憂鬱陰沉，籠罩在恐怖氣壓之中……結合了艾嘉莎?克麗絲蒂劇情中的幽閉恐懼和史帝芬?金故事裡的毛骨悚然。」──《舊金山紀事報》
「閱讀丹尼斯?勒翰的《隔離島》就像是踏入了一個瘋狂、暴力、欺瞞的夢魘……」──《華盛頓郵報書評》
「繫好安全帶準備好一場崎嶇不平、快速危險的旅程……勒翰是說故事的天生好手……對白極為精彩。」──《波士頓環球報》
「《隔離島》是一本構思絕佳的小說，扣人心弦、出人意表，又令人極度不安……令人想起了愛倫坡的故事……勒翰確實是好手。」──《休士頓紀事報》
「──你只能想像若史蒂芬?金或愛倫坡吃了強烈迷幻藥ＬＳＤ才可能寫出這樣的故事……」──美聯社
「《隔離島》文字明朗、編碼一貫、結構結實而且一切顯然全在掌控之中，結局出現後你不服氣再翻回去檢驗一番，包括比方說島主模樣的典獄長(一個其實並不重要的角色)的反應及其行為舉止描述，也都合情合理，而且看得出書寫者的細心和腦袋清晰不紊。看來，這部《隔離島》甚有機會讓勒翰繼《神秘河流》後再登一次高峰。」 ──唐諾

Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brought up by the world's worst mother, neglected throughout her childhood, she has nonetheless blossomed into a formidably intelligent young woman. A young woman so bright that she can seemingly out-think and out-manoeuvre anyone...For Patrick, the case leads him down Boston's darkest, most dangerous streets ? and into a world of shocking secrets that will threaten not only Amanda's life, but also his own and that of his partner Angie Gennaro.

再也沒有比孩子失蹤所造成的安靜更強的聲音。
這個介於兩呎半到三呎之間孩子的靜默，你會在臀部的高度感受到，
聽到從地板上揚起，從角落、縫隙，以及床邊面無表情的娃娃臉上對你尖叫出聲。這種安靜和葬禮及守靈時不同。
死者的安靜帶著終了的意味；是一種你知道自己要去習慣的安靜。
但是，你不會想要去習慣失蹤孩子的安靜；
你拒絕接受，於是它對你高聲尖叫。
死者的安靜訴說著：再會。
失蹤孩子的安靜卻說：來找我。
人們沒在尋找她的每一秒鐘，她都有感受。
誰來讓那個女孩知道，她的生死仍然有人在意？
從小就被忽略著長大的四歲小女孩深夜消失，恍神的母親十二小時之後才發現。既沒有勒贖電話也沒有事故現場，波士頓警方調動眾多人馬，仍然束手無策。
在孩子舅媽的懇切請求下，派崔克和安琪加入了搜查行動。經過抽絲剝繭的調查，終於將方向導向擄人勒贖事件。然而繳交贖款的夜裡，爆發了激烈的槍戰，對手不見蹤影，孩子更沒有贖回，最後一線希望也都破滅了。
但就在事情看似就要過去之際，派崔克發現或許他們一開始就搞錯了方向……
丹尼斯．勒翰對受虐兒童的悲憫和關注，以其特有的感性筆觸，寫下本系列最精采感人的一部故事。不論你以前是不是派崔克∕安琪的書迷，都不能錯過這部作品。

Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brought up by the world's worst mother, neglected throughout her childhood, she has nonetheless blossomed into a formidably intelligent young woman. A young woman so bright that she can seemingly out-think and out-manoeuvre anyone...For Patrick, the case leads him down Boston's darkest, most dangerous streets - and into a world of shocking secrets that will threaten not only Amanda's life, but also his own and that of his partner Angie Gennaro.

人心大旱裡，誰回應她的祈禱？
《隔離島》、《神祕河流》作者丹尼斯．勒翰又一撼動人心力作
《紐約時報》年度矚目好書、亞馬遜網站選書
「她想死，肯錫先生。她想死想得不得了。」
「是想死，還是想被拯救？」
「不都是一樣的嗎？好脫離這個世界，不是嗎？那就像……就像祈雨，在沙漠中央祈求降雨。」
六個月前，她還是私家偵探派崔克．肯錫的客戶，是個熱愛生命的活潑女子。六個月後，她從波士頓著名的地標大樓一躍而下──那是一連串自我毀滅的最終收場。
她或許真的是自殺身亡，沒人在大樓上從她身後推了致命的一把，但在她生命結束前最後幾個月的時光裡，肯定有股恐怖的力量，推她走上生不如死的絕路。警方無心調查、法律無力制裁，可是派崔克可以，雖然他不清楚自己為何要這麼做──沒人委託、沒有酬勞，是罪惡感作祟或好奇心使然？
或許，這不過是回應一名女子，在荒漠人心中呼喚降雨的祈禱……
從達許．漢密特、雷蒙．錢德勒、羅斯．麥唐諾、勞倫斯．卜洛克、詹姆士．艾洛伊到丹尼斯．勒翰，這些作家筆下被劃歸為「冷硬（Hard-Boiled）」派的故事，幾乎都有這樣的特質：揭開不同階層不同人物的種種表象，移來光源，將不堪的人性亮晃晃地照映出來，讓讀者們清楚地認知：所謂怪物，其實正是人類自己某些特質的聚合。
或許有人要問：世界很糟，人性很爛，這些在現實世界天天上演，何需再花筆墨闡述？
因為這些作者利用故事將世界裡子的髒污翻轉出來的時候，總還會在裡頭安置幾個疲憊、頹唐、不全然符合社會標準、嘴上不說但心裡一直有所堅持的角色，不自覺地撐起全世界的不仁不義，鍥而不捨地前進想要證明一些什麼；他們對人性大多沒什麼信心，但他們的所作所為，卻是人性當中，某種良善的現世證明。這些故事雖然昭顯了殘酷的現實，卻會在情節行進的時候，開始與之抗爭；閱讀這些故事，重點並不在聽作者訴說人性當中的種種黯影，而在期待闇黑之境裡，他們燃起的小小光亮──彷彿在大旱之際，某種即將飄雨的微渺徵兆，那是一種慰藉，也是一種希望。
只要落下第一滴雨點，世界，就有可能變得不再一樣。
全球銷售突破八十萬冊
1999年《紐約時報》年度矚目好書
1999年12月亞馬遜網站選書（Penzler’s Pick）
2000年夏姆斯獎（Shamus Awards）決選入圍作
2000年貝瑞獎（Barry Awards）決選入圍作

In 1975 three young boys encounter a pair of roving child molesters who pass themselves off as policemen. Two of them escape, but ten-year-old Dave Boyle is not so fortunate and finds himself trapped in a four-day ordeal that changes his life forever. Mystic River is both a murder mystery and a novel of character. Like the very best fiction, it is, in the end, about many things: grief, sin, karma, hope and the lack of hope, and the countless ways in which past events continue to influence the present.
Description in Spanish: Cuano eran niños, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus y Dave Boyle eran amigos. Un día, un extraño coche se detuvo en su calle. Uno de los chicos subió al coche, pero los otros dos no lo hicieron. Y sucedió algo terrible, algo que acabó con su amistad y que les cambió a los tres para siempre.Veinticinco años más tarde, Devine trabaja de detective para el Departamento de Homicidios, Marcus es un ex convicto que tiene una tienda de barrio, y Boyle intenta salvar su matrimonio y mantener sus demonios a raya: demonios que le incitan a hacer cosas terribles.Mystic River ha sido llevada al cine por Clint Eastwood, protagonizada por Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon y Laurance Fishburne.