Pequenas Mercês

About this book

Small Mercies is a 2023 detective-mystery novel by American author Dennis Lehane. The novel is set in Boston in summer 1974, during the tense days approaching the start of the school year at the height of the Boston busing crisis. The story encompasses Irish Mob conflicts, a missing teenaged white girl, and a Black mans murder. The books cover features a photograph taken by Eugene Richards at a protest outside South Boston High School in September 1974. Lehane has signaled that the novel "may be his last."