Mercy: Penguin Picks (Penguin Picks, 6) - Softcover

Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405933704 ISBN 13: 9781405933704

Publisher: Penguin, 2018

Synopsis

FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME & THRILLERS SINCE 1945

Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to but also books whose looks will never go out of fashion . . .

Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is Scandinavia's new bestselling crime writing sensation

'She scratched her fingertips on the smooth walls until they bled, and pounded her fists on the thick panes until she could no longer feel her hands. At least ten times she had fumbled her way to the steel door and stuck her fingernails in the crack to pry it open . . .'

Merete Lynggard vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says the case is a waste of time. Everyone except Copenhagen detective Carl Morck. Turning over this old case he thinks he's found a clue missed by his predecessors. It takes him on a journey, one that upsets his superiors, that troubles his colleagues, that causes him to break rules. But at the end of it a woman waits who has been missing five years . . .

'Engrossing' Sunday Express

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Review:

One of the most original plots in crime fiction . . . Brilliant (The Times, Top 100 Crime & Thrillers since 1945)

The new "it" boy of Nordic Noir (The Times)

Gripping story-telling (Guardian)

This pitch-black novel will have readers hungry for more (Independent)

From the Back Cover:

At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first.

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Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says it's a waste of time. He thinks they're right.

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The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times:

WHY is this happening?

'Gripping storytelling. Features all the hallmarks Scandi-book fans have come to adore' Guardian

'This pitch-black novel will have readers hungry for more . . . with an ingenuity as impressive as it is unnerving' Independent

'For those suffering withdrawals from The Killing' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1405933704
• ISBN 13: 9781405933704
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512