SMALL MERCIES
By DENNIS LEHANE Hachette
Lehane writes dark reads that translate perfectly to the big screen – think Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island – and his latest is also set to be adapted into an Apple TV+series.
Set in his hometown of Boston, it takes place in the early 1970s in an impoverished Irish community angry at the planned desegregation of schools. Amid the rapidly rising racial tension, Jules, the teen daughter of tough
