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:
"Harvey crisply evokes the dark side of the Boston urban underclass inhabiting a fractured neighborhood in a constant state of casual violence and brutality...Moving."
-- "Publishers Weekly"