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The Mystery of Mercy Close

By: Marian Keyes
Narrated by: Niamh Daly
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Marian Keye’s heartbreaking stunner of a novel, The Mystery of Mercy Close, read by the actress Niamh Daly.

“I employ this thing called The Shovel List.” “A shovel...?” “No. A Shovel List. It’s more of a conceptual thing. It’s a list of all the people and things I hate so much that I want to hit them in the face with a shovel.”

Meet Helen - youngest of the Walsh sisters and a law unto herself. She’s easily bored, has an inability to filter her thoughts and was fired from every job she ever had before she found her true calling as a private investigator. But times are tough for PIs, and Helen’s had no choice but to take on the search for AWOL boyband has-been Wayne Diffney: The Wacky One. It’s not all bad this game of Where’s Wayne.

It may have brought her charming crook of an ex Jay Parker back into her life, but it’s giving her an excuse to avoid the usual Walsh family dramas and the intense looks from her gorgeous boyfriend Artie that make her heart beat wildly with lust and panic in equal measure. But most of all it’s an excellent distraction from the huge swarm of black vultures gathering over her head. If she hides out in her target’s empty house on Mercy Close for long enough maybe they’ll go away...But as Helen begins to unravel the mysteries secreted on Mercy Close she discovers a kindred spirit in a man unwilling to be found. Could someone be telling her to look a little closer to home?

©2012 Marian Keyes (P)2012 Penguin Audio
Contemporary Contemporary Romance Detective Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Romance Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Comedy Funny Heartfelt Witty Suspense

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Wasn't the best of Keyes. Protagonist difficult to bond with. Worth listening nevertheless. Good overall.

Worth a listen but disappointing

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I liked this book but it was a bit drawn out and kept twising the plot of the story so every so often you had to think back over what had just hapened with a view to keeping up,overall a good listen that i would recomend

a bit strange

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yet another great book by Marian keyes this book is about Helen Walsh. It has a great ending it is a little slow to start with but just persevere

Good listen

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This book was very ,very slow!
I found it very difficult to finish.
Disappointing!

Not up to her usual standard!

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I love Marian Keyes' book's. This is me first listening to one, I loved it.

loved it

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