He wrote and produced the acclaimed limited series Black Bird for Apple TV+ and is currently developing his next series for Apple. Mercedes and End of Watch for DirecTV and The Outsider for HBO. He was a writer-producer on the television adaptations of three Stephen King novels-Mr. Lehane was a staff writer on the acclaimed HBO series, The Wire, and also worked as a writer-producer on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and the Netflix series, Bloodline.
A fifth, The Drop, was adapted by Lehane himself into a film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini in his final role. Since his first novel, A Drink Before the War, won the Shamus Award, he has published thirteen more novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and become international bestsellers: Darkness, Take My Hand Sacred Gone, Baby, Gone Prayers for Rain Mystic River Shutter Island The Given Day Moonlight Mile Live by Night World Gone By Since We Fell, and Small Mercies.įour of his novels – Live by Night, Mystic River, Gone, Baby, Gone, and Shutter Island – have been adapted into films. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.ĭennis Lehane grew up in Boston. 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. 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. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.
One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. 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. In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors.
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