Acts of Mercy - A Mercy Street Novel

Zusatztext “A fantastic new series . . . The author’s finely drawn characters! and her rapid-pace! intelligent stories! keep the suspense flowing and the pages turning.”— Fresh Fiction Informationen zum Autor Mariah Stewart is the award-winning author of the Last series: Last Look, Last Words, and L ast Breath; the Truth series: Cold Truth, Hard Truth, Dark Truth, and Final Truth; and the Dead series: Dead Even, Dead Wrong, Dead Certain, and Dead End ; as well as Forgotten, Until Dark, and T he President's Daughter. She is the recipient of the Golden Leaf Award and the Award of Excellence presented by the Colorado Romance Writers, and has been a finalist for the Holt Medallion. Her books have been nominated for several awards from Romantic Times magazine, including Best Contemporary Romance and Best Contemporary Novel. Stewart is a native of Hightstown, New Jersey, and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their two daughters. Klappentext From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts! Catherine Coulter! and Karen Robards. Former FBI agent Sam Delvecchio brings the keen skills of a profiler to his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation operative-and not a moment too soon. His first assignment! the cold-case murder of a local soup kitchen volunteer! has all the telltale signs of a serial killer's work. That grim suspicion is confirmed when FBI agent Fiona Summers shares the details of two other killings with eerie similarities to Sam's case: The bodies in all three cases have been carefully posed. And when a fourth victim is discovered! the two investigators realize they're pursuing the same twisted quarry. Local parish priest Kevin Burch! Mercy Street founder Robert Magellan's cousin! recognizes the posings for what they are: The killer is staging the church' s seven Acts of Mercy ("Feed the hungry! clothe the naked . . .") with the bodies of his victims. But as Sam and Fiona race to prevent the final three murders! taunting messages from their target lead to the most chilling realization of all. Chapter One Her high heels clicking across the hardwood floors, Mallory Russo walked through the quiet foyer of the handsome Tudor mansion that served as home to business mogul Robert Magellan, as well as being her place of business. Uncharacteristically silent, the house seemed to reflect the sad spirits of all who’d come under its roof today. Earlier that morning, Mallory and her coworkers had gathered here before filing into the limousines that would take them to Our Lady of Angels Church a few miles away in Conroy, Pennsylvania, where Father Kevin Burch, Robert’s cousin, conducted the memorial service for Robert’s late wife, Beth. Mallory removed the wide-brimmed black hat she’d bought for the occasion and walked the length of the hall to the wing of the house where the Mercy Street Foundation offices were located. She snapped on the overhead fan as she entered the room and went straight to her desk. She tossed the hat on a nearby chair and tried to remember if she’d ever owned such a thing before. Under the desk, her feet kicked off the heels she seldom wore and her cramped toes wiggled in the hopes of bringing back the circulation. She wasn’t sure when the others would be back but she hoped to get some work in between now and the time those who’d been invited back for a luncheon began to arrive. No one had seemed in much of a hurry to leave the cemetery after the service, gathered around chatting as they’d been, but she’d been ready to leave even before the priest had begun to speak. There was something unsettling about holding a funeral for a woman who’d been dead but not buried for well over a year, so when Charlie Wanamaker, her fiancé and a detective with the local police force, ...

Product details

• Authors: Mariah Stewart
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.08.2009
• EAN: 9780345506146
• ISBN: 978-0-345-50614-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Mercy; Mercy Street Novels (Paperback; Mercy; Mercy Street Novels (Paperback; Random House Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense