I just read 'Mystic River' by Dennis Lehane.
I found his writing to be typical of a few American authors. He uses lots of fragmented sentences and lots of 'blah, blah, and, blah, and, ......' (run on sentences) to increase the pace of his writing. I found it annoying at first as I'd just finished a more normal paced book beforehand, but I eventually got into it and it was not a bad book.