The Mercy Chair
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70122
Erscheinungsdatum
06.06.2024
Verlag
Little, Brown Book GroupSeitenzahl
432 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1329 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780349135588
Winner of the Fingerprint Award 2025 for Crime book
Shortlisted for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel 2025
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'Macabre and wry' Telegraph
'Mesmerising, macabre and magnificent. The Mercy Chair is truly terrifying, laugh-out-loud funny, and impossibly clever. Poe and Tilly are unstoppable' Chris Whitaker
'Washington Poe is a brilliant creation, from one of the finest and most inventive crime writers of today' Peter James
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . .
Washington Poe has a story to tell.
And he needs you to listen.
You'll hear how it started with the robber birds. Crows. Dozens of them. Enough for a murder . . .
He'll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it. He'll tell you how the man's murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family.
And finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair. And why people would rather kill themselves than talk about it . . .
Poe hopes you've been paying attention. Because in this story, nothing is as it seems . . .
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MORE PRAISE FOR MW CRAVEN:
'Craven renders the darkness of the human condition with immense skill, ratcheting the tension to a nails-on-chalkboard pitch. Don't turn out the lights.' Vaseem Khan
'The kind of novel that inspired me to write fiction in the first place. A guaranteed great time.' Chris Brookmyre
'Darkly entertaining' The Telegraph
'If you haven't read any M.W. Craven yet, fix that immediately' S. A. Cosby
'I've been following M.W. Craven's Poe/Tilly series from the very beginning, and it just gets better and better' Peter Robinson
'Poe and Tilly books are a joy' Steve Cavanagh
'In Tilly and Poe, M.W. Craven has created a stand-out duo who are two of the most compelling characters in crime fiction in recent years' Fiona Cummins
'Darkly comic . . . Thrilling' The Independent
'Clever, sophisticated, utterly gripping thriller from one of the best writers around' Mari Hannah
'Craven has unleashed Ben Koenig into the thriller world. Long may he raise hell in the pages. A superb thriller that will have everyone talking, and gasping.'¿David Baldacci
'Paging Lee and Andrew Child: you've got company' The Times
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Fast-paced, gripping, and so dark
The latest case for Detective Sergeant Washington Poe and brilliant mastermind Tilly Bradshaw is also the darkest so far in the series. As in the previous books the chapters are short, it’s a fast-paced, gripping read, full of twists and turns, some expected, others utterly surprising. The story starts as Washington Poe sits down to tell a psychiatrist the events that have led to his PTSD. Which means we keep switching timelines and Craven cleverly sets his cliffhangers that way. I won’t tell you anything about the case itself which centres once more on Poe alone. Something I still find a bit sad because I’d like to see more of Tilly, Estelle and Stephanie, especially to see them evolve. On the plus side of things, I very much enjoyed Craven’s love for details. Not only does he delve into trauma psychology this time but it’s also in the little things, like the Policeman Grotesque on Carlisle Cathedral. “The Mercy Chair” had me hooked from page one and I do hope the story of Poe and Tilly continues soon.