The Mystery of Mercy Close: From the author of the 2023 Sunday Times bestseller Again, Rachel - Softcover

Keyes, Marian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405911824 ISBN 13: 9781405911825

Publisher: Penguin, 2013

Synopsis

"I employ this thing called The Shovel List."
"A shovel...?"
"No. A Shovel List. It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much that I want to hit them in the face with a shovel."

Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs - and yet she's sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some old demons have resurfaced.

Not least in the form of her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who shows up with a missing persons case - the target: Wayne Diffney, the 'Wacky One' from boyband Laddz..

Playing by her own rules, Helen is drawn into a dark and glamorous world, where her worst enemy is her own head and where increasingly the only person she feels connected to is Wayne, a man she's never even met.

Utterly compelling, moving and very very funny, The Mystery of Mercy Close is unlike any novel you've ever read and Helen Walsh - courageous, vulnerable and wasp-tongued - is the perfect heroine for our times.

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-01 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Export I employ this thing called The Shovel List. A shovel ... No. A Shovel List. Its more of a conceptual thing . Its a list of all the people and things I hate so much that I want to hit them in the face with a shovel. Meet Helen - youngest of the Walsh sisters and a law unto herself. Shes easily bored. has an inability to filter her thoughts and was fired from every job she ever had before she found her true calling as a private investigator. But times are tough for PIs and Helens had no choice but to take on the search for AWOL boyband has-been Wayne Diffney - The Wacky One. Its not all bad this game of Wheres Wayne. It may have brought her charming crook of an ex Jay Parker back into her life. but its giving her an excuse to avoid the usual Walsh family dramas and the intense looks from her gorgeous b...

Review:

The Mystery of Mercy Close is the tale of strong and sassy but vulnerable, private detective Helen Walsh who is looking for a missing person - but can she find him before she loses herself?

'I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time . . .'

(from the publisher's description)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1405911824
• ISBN 13: 9781405911825
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 624