Description: Now a journalist for the Boston Globe, Kevin Pearce returns to his childhood home of Brighton to try to save his old friend Bobby Scales from being the prime suspect for a string of recent murders, and to do this Kevin must confess their part in a crime twenty-seven years ago.
Brief description:
Michael Harvey is the author of seven previous novels, including Brighton and The Chicago Way. He's also a journalist and documentarian whose work has won multiple News & Documentary Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination. Raised in Boston, he now lives in Chicago.
Review Quotes:
"Riveting...Harvey's gritty tribute to the working-class neighborhoods of his youth is as authentically captured as the best of Dennis Lehane. Fans of Martin Scorsese's film The Departed will love the violent twists and turns of the novel's final chapters."
-- "Library Journal (starred review)"