
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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