The mystery of Mercy Close
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- ISBN: 1405911832
- ISBN: 9781405911832
- Physical Description 583 pages
- Publisher London : Penguin Books, 2013.
- Copyright ©2012
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: London : Michael Joseph, 2012. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 18.00 |
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Summary
The Mystery of Mercy Close
"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.