
Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is Scandinavia's new bestselling crime writing sensation At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed But there is no escaping the room With no way of measuring time her days weeks months go unrecorded She vows not to go mad She will not give her captors the satisfaction She will die first Copenhagen detective Carl Morck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard who vanished five years ago Everyone says she's dead Everyone says it's a waste of time He thinks they're right The voice in the dark is distorted harsh & without mercy It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question It is one she has asked herself a million times WHY is this happening?A dark & mysterious story Mercy establishes Jussi Adler-Olsen as the master of the Nordic thriller Praise for Jussi Adler-Olsen' The new it boy of Nordic Noir' The Times ' Gripping story-telling' Guardian' This pitch-black novel will have readers hungry for more' Independent Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen & studied medicine sociology politics & film He worked as a magazine editor & publisher before starting to write fiction So far he has written four Department Q thrillers which all hit the Danish bestseller lists on publication & stayed there ever since