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 New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult has an incredible talent for taking hot-button social issues and weaving them into compelling page-turners. In Mercy, she explores the depths of love in its many forms. Police chief Cameron McDonald has lived in idyllic Wheelock, Massachusetts for most of his life, as has his beloved wife Allie. Their comfortable lives are thrown into tumult, however, when Cam's distant cousin Jamie arrives in town along with his wife's dead body. Jamie admits to the murder - a mercy killing to end the pain caused by a ravaging cancer. And now Cam is torn by his oath to uphold justice and his family obligations as chief of the Scottish McDonald clan. Meanwhile, another new arrival in town, Mia Townsend, threatens to unwittingly drive a dagger through Cam's marriage. Deftly portraying the complexities of love and passion, Picoult delivers another literary triumph with Mercy.©1996 Jodi Picoult (P)2006 Recorded Books,LLC Contemporary Contemporary Romance Mystery Romance Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Marriage Fiction

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"What could have been a competent, topical novel about a mercy killing becomes, in Picoult's hands, an inspired meditation on love." ( Publishers Weekly)
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I found this book a bit turgid. The love affair between Cam and Mia took up a lot of the narrative and I sided with Allie throughout although she was unconvincingly oblivious to what was going on which I thought improbable. The main thrust of the story about euthanasia was quite harrowing although the husband was quite an unsympathetic character. The Scottish side story was quite boring. I like most of Jodi Piccoult's books but this is not a favourite.

Not her best

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Another fantastic book by Jodi and couldn't stop listening to it and hoped and prayed at the end of everything would and Elly and Cam could ,have a baby. Please write another both where Elly and Cam have a baby but Elly was worried the baby wasn't Cam's but the cowboys, she needed to get a DNA sample from Cam without he realised what was going or Mia had Cams baby. Carry on writing as your brilliant at telling stories ......thank you ❤️

Fantastic

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Really enjoyed this story, felt a little unnecessarily long but i did feel like i knew the characters inside out by the end !!

Long but enjoyable

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I enjoyed listening to this book. The characters were likeable & the story itself was thought provoking, as well as emotionally involving. I have always been a lover of Jodi Picoult novels, and this is no different. Well worth a read.

WELL WORTH A READ.

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The story was compelling, in that, I became invested in whether the trial, central to the book would resolve in a satisfactory manner. I was rather keen that one of the other main characters didn’t get away with their misdemeanours as easily as they seemed to for so long; that irritated me quite a lot and they got some comeuppance, but maybe never really regretted their actions!! But the main frustration was probably the terrible Scottish accent used by the narrator whenever Angus was present. I was starting to wish he would play no further part in the story so so didn’t have to cringe at the attempts. However, in general, a story I found entertaining and wanted to keep listening to and that is the main point of a story after all, so I recommend it, too anyone who’s not Scottish!

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