Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane is an American author and screenwriter who has published more than a dozen novels. His first several books form a series of mysteries with recurring characters, beginning with A Drink Before the War (1994), and he also wrote The Given Day, a historical novel that opens the Coughlin Trilogy. Four of his novels, including Mystic River, Shutter Island, Gone Baby Gone, and Live by Night, became films, and his short story Animal Rescue was adapted into The Drop.