Absence Of Mercy

Author : John Burley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062227393

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The Absence of Mercy by John Burley Pdf

John Burley’s The Absence of Mercy is a harrowing tale of suspense involving a brutal murder and dark secrets that lie beneath the surface of a placid, tight-knit Midwestern town. When a brutally murdered teenager is discovered in the woods surrounding a small Ohio town, Dr. Ben Stevenson—the town’s medical examiner—must decide if he’s willing to put his family’s life in danger to uncover the truth. Finding himself pulled deeper into an investigation with devastating consequences, he discovers shocking information that will shatter his quiet community, and force him to confront a haunting truth. With its eerie portrait of suburban life and nerve-fraying plot twists, The Absence of Mercy is domestic drama at its best for fans of Harlan Coben, Laura Lippman, Jennifer McMahon, and Lisa Gardner.

Author : S. M. Goodwin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643855219

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Absence of Mercy by S. M. Goodwin Pdf

A string of grisly murders in Pre-Civil War New York propels an unlikely pair of detectives into a deadly tinderbox in S. M. Goodwin's debut novel, a sure hit for fans of Will Thomas and C. S. Harris. Jasper Lightner is a decorated Crimean War hero and the most admired inspector in London's Metropolitan Police. Along with a chest full of medals, he's got a head injury that's left large chunks of his memory missing. But Jasper's biggest problem is his father, the Duke of Kersey, who, enraged by a series of front-page newspaper stories extolling Jasper's exploits, decides he's had enough of the embarrassment and uses his political connections to keep his son out of the headlines--and off the police force. Jasper is sent packing to New York City on a year-long assignment to train detectives, and discovers a police department hovering on the brink of armed conflict. Assigned to investigate the murder of philanthropist and reformer Stephen Finch, Jasper joins forces with a man who might be even more of an outsider than he is: Hieronymus Law, a detective who had investigated two almost identical killings--and who is rumored to have taken money to help frame an innocent woman for murder. Law is bent on restoring his good name. But can Jasper trust Hy enough to bring him into the investigation? As the city devolves into madness and law enforcement falls into the hands of dangerous gangs, this unlikely team has no choice but to work together to pursue an adversary more sinister than either has faced alone.

Author : Christy Ann Conlin
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487003418

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The Speed of Mercy by Christy Ann Conlin Pdf

“Dark family secrets, the lore of the sea, and a tender, protective friendship between women all converge in The Speed of Mercy, an unusual and surprising story set in idyllic rural Nova Scotia. With subtle humour, Conlin picks the locks on the long-closed doors of two families and bares the ugly, painful skeletons everyone knew were there but chose to hide.” — Sylvia D. Hamilton, author of And I Alone Escaped To Tell You The Speed of Mercy captures the unbearable cost of childhood betrayal and what happens when history is suppressed, our past is forgotten — yet finding the truth can change the future. Christy Ann Conlin rips into the myths and stereotypes about older women and those on the edge of conventional society to reveal the timeless gift of mercy in this feminist tour de force. “Christy Ann Conlin is a conjurer: of place, people, and the haunting past. I was instantly caught up in the darkly mysterious world and indelible characters she has brought to life. Gripping, suspenseful, and lyrically written, The Speed of Mercy caught me by the throat and didn’t let go.” — Alix Ohlin, Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted author of Dual Citizens

Author : John Burley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Murder
ISBN : 1611290171

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The Absence of Mercy by John Burley Pdf

John Burley's The Absence of Mercy is a harrowing tale of suspense involving a brutal murder and dark secrets that lie beneath the surface of a placid, tight-knit Midwestern town. When a brutally murdered teenager is discovered in the woods surrounding a small Ohio town, Dr. Ben Stevenson--the town's medical examiner--must decide if he's willing to put his family's life in danger to uncover the truth. Finding himself pulled deeper into an investigation with devastating consequences, he discovers shocking information that will shatter his quiet community, and force him to confront a haunting truth. With its eerie portrait of suburban life and nerve-fraying plot twists, The Absence of Mercy is domestic drama at its best.--Publisher's description.

Author : Blake Pierce
Publisher : Blake Pierce
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781094383682

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An Amber Young FBI Suspense Thriller Bundle: Absent Mercy (#4), Absent Reason (#5), and Absent Sanity (#6) by Blake Pierce Pdf

A bundle of books #4 (ABSENT MERCY), #5 (ABSENT REASON), and #6 (ABSENT SANITY) in Blake Pierce’s Amber Young mystery series! This bundle offers books four, five, and six in one convenient file, with over 100,000 words of reading. In ABSENT MERCY (Book #4), Amber Young, genius puzzle editor turned FBI special agent, is baffled when a new serial killer taunts the FBI with a word search puzzle. None of the searches seem to make any sense. And unless she can figure it out soon, time is running out to save his next victim’s life. In this page-turning, cat and mouse thriller, it’s a battle of clues, riddles, twists—and genius. In ABSENT REASON (Book #5), there are very few puzzles that Amber Young cannot solve. But when faced with a rare, “impossible puzzle,” Amber may have finally met her match. Failure, though, means another victim’s life. Can Amber discard everything she knows and enter this killer’s mind in time to stop him? In ABSENT SANITY (Book #6), Amber is stumped when a new victim is found tied in an elaborate rope puzzle—a mysterious killer’s signature that makes her certain that, if she doesn’t decode it in time, he will soon strike again…. A page-turning and harrowing crime thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured FBI agent, the Amber Young series is a riveting mystery, packed with non-stop action, suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven by a breakneck pace that will keep you flipping pages late into the night. Fans of Rachel Caine, Teresa Driscoll and Robert Dugoni are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available!

Author : Cardinal Walter Kasper
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9781587683657

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Mercy by Cardinal Walter Kasper Pdf

"This book has done me so much good." —Pope Francis From one the leading intellects in the church today—one whom Pope Francis has described as a "superb theologian"—comes perhaps his most important book yet. Available for the first time in English, Cardinal Kasper looks to capture the essence of the gospel message. Compassionate, bold, and brilliant, Cardinal Kasper has written a book which will be studied for generations.

Author : Philip Goldfarb Styrt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350173996

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Shakespeare's Political Imagination by Philip Goldfarb Styrt Pdf

Shakespeare's Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare's plays it is essential to look at the historicism of setting: how the places and societies depicted in the plays were understood in the period when they were written. This book offers us new readings of neglected critical moments in key plays, such as Malcolm's final speech in Macbeth and the Duke's inaction in The Merchant of Venice, by investigating early modern views about each setting and demonstrating how the plays navigate between those contemporary perspectives. Divided into three parts, this book explores Shakespeare's historicist use of medieval Britain and Scotland in King John and Macbeth; ancient Rome in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus; and Renaissance Europe through Venice and Vienna in The Merchant of Venice, Othello and Measure for Measure. Philip Goldfarb Styrt argues that settings are a powerful component in Shakespeare's worlds that not only function as physical locations, but are a mechanism through which he communicates the political and social orders of the plays. Reading the plays in light of these social and political contexts reveals Shakespeare's dramatic method: how he used competing cultural narratives about other cultures to situate the action of his plays. These fresh insights encourage us to move away from overly localized or universalized readings of the plays and re-discover hidden moments and meanings that have long been obscured.

Author : Daniel Pledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:600096385

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Morning and Evening Walks, with the Prophet Jeremiah by Daniel Pledge Pdf

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393344684

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A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career, Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy, she delighted in creating true sociopaths in the guise of the everyday man or woman. Now, one of her finest works is again in print: A Suspension of Mercy, a masterpiece of noir fantasy. With this novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life. "For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith."—Time "Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night."—The New Yorker

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307373076

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A Mercy by Toni Morrison Pdf

A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

Author : Caroline Overington
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742750446

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Sisters of Mercy by Caroline Overington Pdf

Sisters of Mercy by Caroline Overington is the haunting crime novel story of two sisters - one has vanished, the other is behind bars... Snow Delaney was born a generation and a world away from her sister, Agnes. Until recently, neither even knew of the other's existence. They came together only for the reading of their father's will - when Snow discovered, to her horror, that she was not the sole beneficiary of his large estate. Now Snow is in prison and Agnes is missing, disappeared in the eerie red dust that blanketed Sydney from dawn on September 23, 2009. With no other family left, Snow turns to crime journalist Jack Fawcett, protesting her innocence in a series of defiant letters from prison. Has she been unfairly judged? Or will Jack's own research reveal a story even more shocking than the one Snow wants to tell? With Sisters of Mercy Caroline Overington once again proves she is one of the most exciting new novelists of recent years.

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781586174132

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Through Shakespeare's Eyes by Joseph Pearce Pdf

Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.

Author : Wesley R. Burr,Loren Dean Marks,Randal D. Day
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780415887458

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Sacred Matters by Wesley R. Burr,Loren Dean Marks,Randal D. Day Pdf

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0415290007

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Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil Pdf

On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.

Author : John Keown,Robert P. George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199675500

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Reason, Morality, and Law by John Keown,Robert P. George Pdf

John Finnis is a pre-eminent legal, moral and political philosopher. This volume contains over 25 essays by leading international scholars of philosophy and law who critically engage with issues at the heart of Finnis's work.