Meet Dennis Lehane on Tour!

May 15, 2017 6PM – Cambridge, MA / Harvard Bookstore at The Brattle Theatre

May 16, 2017 7PM – NYC / Barnes & Noble Upper East Side

May 18, 2017 7:30PM – Philadelphia, PA / Philadelphia Free Library

May 19, 2017 7PM – Holyoke, MA / Odyssey Bookstore presents at Gateway City Arts Center

May 20, 2017 6PM – Washington, DC / Politics & Prose

May 22, 2017 6:30PM – Houston, TX / Murder By the Book

May 23, 2017 7:30PM – Los Angeles, CA / Los Angeles Public Library ALOUD series held at the Writers Guild Theatre in Los Angeles. Interviewed by Attica Locke

June 4, 2017 3PM – Salt Lake City, UT / The Kings English Bookshop

June 5, 2017 7PM– Seattle, WA / Elliott Bay Book Company

June 6, 2017 7PM – Beaverton, OR / Powell’s Bookstore Cedar Hills Crossing

June 12, 2017 7PM – Parma, OH / Cuyahoga County Public Library

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Small Mercies

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.

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