Reviewed by Marina W.
July 24, 2008
"...definitely recommend to anyone who wants to stay on the edge of their seats."
Two murdered teens, two teens turned murder suspects who are possibly on the run or dead but definitely missing, and an adventure like no other is what you'll find in Mariah Stewart's Mercy street.
Mallory Russo, an ex-detective who was bullied out of her job (basically because she refused to cover for her partner shortly before he retired and ended up looking like she was trying to climb the career ladder at his expense), is hired by Father Kevin Burch to find out what happened when four of his teen parishioners are involved in a shooting.
While two of the teens ended up dead, the other two have gone missing. And while the police assume the two missing teens are involved with the murders of the other two, he doesn't. And he sure doesn't want things to turn nasty. So with the help of his wealthy cousin, Robert Magellan, he hires Mallory to return the kids safely before the police find them and things get out of hand.
Charlie Wannamaker, the detective that's been hired to replace Mallory, is assigned the case. He quickly finds he must work with Mallory despite the issues she has with the police department and his own personal problems to help figure out what happened to the kids and figure out who's the killer.
This is an excellent book, it was a wonderful read that I would definitely recommend to anyone who wants to stay on the edge of their seats.
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Book Description for Mercy Street
On a balmy spring evening, four high school seniors?three boys and a girl?enter a park in the small Pennsylvania city of Conroy. The next morning, two of the boys are found shot to death, and the girl and the third boy are gone. After three weeks with no leads and no sign of either of the two missing teenagers, the chief of police begins to wonder if they too were victims. But with no other suspects, the authorities conclude that one of these kids was the shooter.
The missing boy?s grandmother, a secretary at the local parish church, maintains his innocence. On her behalf, the parish priest, Father Kevin Burch, hires former detective Mallory Russo as a private investigator to figure out what happened in the park that night. Mallory had ended her nine-year stint with the Conroy police force some time ago after becoming a target of a smear campaign. Now a true-crime author, Mallory is surprised to receive the priest?s offer?and highly intrigued by the case. She can?t help but accept the challenge?especially when she learns that her investigation will be financed by Father Burch?s cousin the reclusive billionaire Robert Magellan, a man whose own wife and infant son disappeared without a trace a year ago, a man who understands the heartache of not knowing what happened to a loved one.
Detective Charlie Wanamaker is facing another sort of tragedy. He fled Conroy years ago with no plans to return to what he considered a dying factory town?until a family emergency brought him back. Finding the situation much worse than he?d thought, he trades 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 kids, dead or alive. What Charlie and Mallory discover will take them down a twisted path that leads to an old unsolved murder?and justice for a killer with a heart of stone.
