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REVIEW: Mercy Street by Mariah Stewart

Dear Ms. Stewart:

book review I was really grateful to find your book on my doorstep. I admit that I had stopped buying your books when they went to hardcover because of cost and then I would forget to buy the book when it came out in paperback. This is kind of sad on my part because you are really a good writer. Mercy Street is a good blend of romance and mystery/suspense and the secondary plot line provides a very piquant dilemma for your readers. I’m still ambivalent about how I want the secondary plot to be resolved.

Four teens go into a park. Two are shot dead and two go missing. The grandmother of one of the mmissing boy is Father Kevin Burch’s parish secretary. Father Burch gets his cousin, Robert Magellan, to underwrite the hiring of a PI. Mallory Russo, a good looking blonde, was forced to retire from the local police force but remains, in the eyes of her supervisors, a superior investigator. Detective Charlie Wanamaker returns to his home town to take care of his alcoholic mother and autistic sister. Mallery and Charlie work together to solve the …