Mercy [Import] [Paperback]

David L. Lindsey (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New Ed edition (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708848869
• ISBN-13: 978-0708848869
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,202,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A refreshingly original and unique mystery thriller, June 29, 1998

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This review is from: Mercy (Paperback)

I didn't expect to be overwhelmed by this book, thinking it would be the typical albeit entertaining murder-mystery novel. Instead I encountered an exceedingly well written story with a warm, likeable protagonist and a plot that truly keeps you wondering until the last chapter. After reading this novel, I have since sought out and read all of Lindsey's novels. If you like a good, gory thriller, you have to read this book.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, literate, disturbing work, October 9, 2003

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Avid Reader (Franklin, Tn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mercy (Paperback)

David Lindsey is one of the most underrated authors in the field today. His novels are always intelligent and interesting and most emerge from authentic FBI case histories. MERCY is not so much a routine who-dun-it mystery as an exploration of the psychology of fetishes and sex, particularly kinky sex - that is assuming one doesn't consider masochism, sadism, cross-dressing, and dominatrix luncheons slightly off.

There is another story beneath the obvious one and that is the practice of such behavior within the confines of polite society. The "victimes" are upper-class women of a certain type - the country club, suburban, once-a-week therapist type. Lindsey has a real knack for looking at events through the eyes of the disturbed individual, again calling on his real-life experience (FBI profiling).

The prose is rich and sweeping, the organization superb, the entire story always a little on edge. This is deeply disturbing novel but an important one.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mercy, November 28, 1999

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Jill C. Guenther "Ozziemom" (Castaic, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mercy (Paperback)

I read Mercy a few years ago, as did my Mom and about 10 other women friends, and we all loved it, even though it was about certain things we had never been involved in, it is riveting. The best thing about this book is the main character, Carmen, whose life is as interesting in her personal life with the interplay with her Mother as is her exciting life in her job. David Lindsay, if you ever read these reviews, are you ever going to write a book with Carmen in it? I have waited years for a book with her in it. Please, let us hear from her again. Your writing is wonderful, but this book was really the one that women liked.