Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane
SPOILER ALERT!
As three eleven-year-olds—Sean, Jimmy, and Dave—play in the street of their Boston neighborhood, child molesters abduct Dave. Four days later he escapes, never to be the same again in literary novel MYSTIC RIVER. Twenty years later, Jimmy’s nineteen-year-old daughter is brutally murdered, Sean is a homicide detective assigned the case, and Dave is a suspect. Dave’s wife sees evidence that Dave has killed someone that same night and tells Jimmy, who executes Dave and dumps his body in the river before Sean solves the case and arrests the real culprits. Now it’s Jimmy’s turn to be a suspect.
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NOTE: The above is a sample pitch I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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