Police officer Ellery Hathaway and FBI profiler Reed Markham take on two difficult new cases in this stunning follow-up to The Vanishing Season.
No Mercy is award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausenβs heart-pounding second novel.
Police officer Ellery Hathaway is on involuntary leave from her job because she shot a murderer in cold blood and refuses to apologize for it. Forced into group therapy for victims of violent crime, Ellery immediately finds higher priorities than βgetting in touch with her feelings.β
For one, she suspects a fellow group member may have helped to convict the wrong man for a deadly arson incident years ago. For another, Ellery finds herself in the desperate clutches of a woman who survived a brutal rape. He is still out there, this man with the Spider-Man-like ability to climb through bedroom windows, and his victim beseeches Ellery for help in capturing her attacker.
Ellery seeks advice from her friend, FBI profiler Reed Markham, who liberated her from a killerβs closet when she was a child. Reed remains drawn to this unpredictable woman, the one he rescued but couldnβt quite save. The trouble is, Reed is up for a potential big promotion, and his boss has just one condition for the new jobβstay away from Ellery. Ellery ignores all the warnings. Instead, she starts digging around in everyoneβs past but her ownβa move that, at best, could put her out of work permanently, and at worst, could put her in the city morgue.
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