Mercy Street
A Novel
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発行者による作品情報
A local detective and a private investigator work together to solve a deadly shooting, inadvertently opening a cold case that some would do anything to keep buried, in this romantic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Last Words.
“Mariah Stewart is one to watch and savor for a long time.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
After two high school seniors are shot dead in a park in Conroy, Pennsylvania, the authorities conclude that one of the other two kids in the park that night—a boy and a girl, both now missing—was the killer. Private investigator Mallory Russo is hired to figure out what happened and to clear the boy’s name. Financing the investigation is reclusive billionaire Robert Magellan, a man who understands the heartache of not knowing what happened to a loved one, having suffered the disappearance of his own wife and infant son a year ago.
Meanwhile, Charlie Wanamaker has traded his job as a big-city detective for one with the Conroy police department. Assigned to the park shooting case, Charlie quickly realizes that the initial investigation left a lot of questions unanswered. Unofficially, he teams up with Mallory to uncover the truth and find the two missing kids, dead or alive. What Charlie and Mallory discover will take them down a twisted path that leads to an old unsolved murder—and a killer with a heart of stone.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This intriguing if somewhat bland first in a new romantic suspense series from bestseller Stewart (Last Breath) introduces two cool crime solvers, PI Mallory Russo, a former Conroy, Pa., cop, and Charlie Wanamaker, a former Philly detective who's returned to Conroy to help his alcoholic mother and his disabled sister. Despite bad experiences employing PIs, billionaire Robert Magellan, who's haunted by the disappearance of his wife and young son, hires Mallory to locate two missing teens, Courtney Bauer and Ryan Corcoran. The high school students vanished after a playground shooting that left two of their friends dead. The Conroy police suspect the pair were involved, but Mary Corcoran, Ryan's grandmother, and Linda Bauer, Courtney's mom, are sure of their innocence. Some readers may wish that the author had given more time on stage to a bad girl suspect, but all will cheer the appealing romance that develops between Mallory and Charlie.
