Billionaire Robert Magellan feels he has nothing to live for. His wife, Beth, and his thirteen-month son, Ian, disappeared without a trace over a year ago. If it weren't for his housekeeper, Trulia; his personal assistant, Susanna; and his cousin, Father Kevin Burch, needing him, and nagging at him, Robert would have taken his own life.
Kevin's secretary, Mary, is the guardian of her teen-age grandson who is wanted on suspicion of murdering two of his best friends. Kevin needs financial aid from Robert to hire an investigator to find Ryan and another teen, Courtney, before the police do. Due to his experiences, Robert does not believe there is an honest PI on earth. If Kevin can find such a rare creature, Robert will foot the bill.
Former Detective Mallory Russo was a shining star with the Conroy, Pennsylvania police department, but she left "under a cloud" about seven months ago. However, Police Chief Joe Drabyak does not hesitate to recommend her to Kevin. And, the Chief will personally vouch for her integrity! Mallory joins forces with her replacement, Detective Charlie Wanamaker, on the missing teen case. The like and respect they have for each other makes it easy for them to work together. There is also an unmistakable sexual attraction between them that will be further examined when this case is closed. Master storyteller Mariah Stewart sets aside her popular FBI tales and embarks on a fantastic new series with MERCY STREET. Ms. Stewart has that rare talent of grabbing the reader's attention immediately and holding them in a gentle, but firm grasp from page one. The author's finely drawn characters, and her rapid-pace, intelligent stories, keeps the suspense flowing and the pages turning in this launch of the Mercy Street Foundation cases. Robert Magellan has found a reason for living and an excellent use for his money. He will fund an organization, headed by Mallory, which will help families of missing persons, who have no other resources, find their loved ones, or, sadly, find closure. MERCY STREET is one terrific romantic suspense heading for all the bestseller lists.
New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart crafts
compelling stories of romantic suspense, full of richly
imagined characters, dazzling plot twists, and breathless
action that keeps the pages turning. Now Stewart begins a
thrilling new seriesβwith a novel that proves to be her
biggest and boldest yet.On a balmy spring evening,
four high school seniorsβthree boys and a girlβenter a park
in the small Pennsylvania city of Conroy. The next morning,
two of the boys are found shot to death, and the girl and
the third boy are gone. After three weeks with no leads and
no sign of either of the two missing teenagers, the chief of
police begins to wonder if they too were victims. But with
no other suspects, the authorities conclude that one of
these kids was the shooter.The missing boyβs
grandmother, a secretary at the local parish church,
maintains his innocence. On her behalf, the parish priest,
Father Kevin Burch, hires former detective Mallory Russo as
a private investigator to figure out what happened in the
park that night. Mallory had ended her nine-year stint with
the Conroy police force some time ago after becoming a
target of a smear campaign. Now a true-crime author, Mallory
is surprised to receive the priestβs offerβand highly
intrigued by the case. She canβt help but accept the
challengeβespecially when she learns that her investigation
will be financed by Father Burchβs cousin the reclusive
billionaire Robert Magellan, a man whose own wife and infant
son disappeared without a trace a year ago, a man who
understands the heartache of not knowing what happened to a
loved one. Detective Charlie Wanamaker is facing
another sort of tragedy. He fled Conroy years ago with no
plans to return to what he considered a dying factory
townβuntil a family emergency brought him back. Finding the
situation much worse than heβd thought, he trades his job as
a big-city detective for one with the Conroy police
department. Assigned to the park shooting case, Charlie
quickly realizes that the initial investigation left a lot
of questions unanswered. Unofficially, he teams up with
Mallory to uncover the truth and find the two kids, dead or
alive. What Charlie and Mallory discover will take them down
a twisted path that leads to an old unsolved murderβand
justice for a killer with a heart of stone.Mercy
Street is tautly paced, resonant with emotion, and
relentlessly gripping. It showcases Mariah Stewart at her
most brilliant, as she ratchets up the suspense to new
levels of excitement.Praise for Mariah
StewartβMariah Stewart is one to watch and savor for
a long time.ββThe Philadelphia InquirerβStewart
can always be counted on to write an exciting romantic
suspense thriller.ββTheBestReviews.com
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