Description: With each successive novel, award-winning author Dennis Lehane has won increasing acclaim from critics and readers alike with his gripping plots, powerful characterizations, and gritty evocation of the dark side of urban life. Now comes his finest work to date: a tense, unnerving psychological thriller in which present realities shatter past secrets deep within the human soul.

When Jimmy Marcus's daughter is found murdered, his childhood friend Sean Devine is assigned the case. His personal life unraveling, the investigation takes Sean back into a world of violence and pain he thought he'd left behind. It also leads him on a collision course with Jimmy Marcus -- a man with his own dark past eager to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, a man who hides monstrous secrets beneath a bland facade -- secrets his wife, Celeste, is only beginning to suspect.

As the race for a killer heats up, all are pulled closer toward an abyss that will force them to face their true selves -- and will mark them as irrevocably as the past itself.

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