![]() In recent years, though, Lehane has struck farther afield. Eight of the Dorchester native’s 13 books, starting with his debut, A Drink Before the War, and perhaps culminating with 2001’s Mystic River-adapted for the screen by Clint Eastwood-are set in contemporary Boston, though several include a fictitious neighborhood called Buckingham. Which is to say, he’s a writer from Boston, but also of Boston, preoccupied with Boston. Lehane, 49, is one of the great crime writers of his age, and by far the most successful Boston writer. Then I noticed a French-language edition of his 2008 novel, The Given Day, wedged up against the glass. ![]() When I visited in January, I wondered if I had the right address. It’s not much to look at: frosted windows, vaguely abandoned-looking, next door to a diner. These days, the writer Dennis Lehane operates out of a storefront in Santa Monica, California, a dozen or so blocks from the beach. ![]()
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