Mercy: Penguin Picks

Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is the new bestselling crime writing sensation in Scandinavia. Detective Carl Morck is on a journey to find Merete Lynggard, who has been missing for five years. The case is not a waste of time, and Morck finds a clue missed by his predecessors.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 512 pages
Publication date: 08 March 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to, but also books whose looks will never go out of fashion. . . . Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is Scandinavia's new bestselling crime writing sensation. She scratched her fingertips on the smooth walls until they bled, and pounded her fists on the thick panes until she could no longer feel her hands. At least ten times she had fumbled her way to the steel door and stuck her fingernails in the crack to pry it open. . . . Merete Lynggard vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says the case is a waste of time. Everyone except Copenhagen detective Carl Morck. Turning over this old case, he thinks he's found a clue missed by his predecessors. It takes him on a journey, one that upsets his superiors, troubles his colleagues, and causes him to break rules. But at the end of it, a woman waits who has been missing for five years.

Penguin Picks are a collection of stories that you will want to read over and over again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories that you will keep coming back to, but also books whose looks will never go out of fashion.

Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is Scandinavia's new bestselling crime writing sensation.

She scratched her fingertips on the smooth walls until they bled, and pounded her fists on the thick panes until she could no longer feel her hands. At least ten times she had fumbled her way to the steel door and stuck her fingernails in the crack to pry it open.

Merete Lynggard vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says the case is a waste of time. Everyone except Copenhagen detective Carl Morck.

Turning over this old case, he thinks he's found a clue missed by his predecessors. It takes him on a journey, one that upsets his superiors, troubles his colleagues, and causes him to break rules. But at the end of it, a woman waits who has been missing for five years.

Weight: 286g
Dimension: 180 x 121 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781405933704