The Mercy Chair (Washington Poe)

'Macabre and wry' Telegraph<BR><BR>'Mesmerising, macabre and magnificent. The Mercy Chair is truly terrifying, laugh-out-loud funny, and impossibly clever. Poe and Tilly are unstoppable' Chris Whitaker<BR><BR>'Washington Poe is a brilliant creation, from one of the finest and most inventive crime writers of today' Peter James<BR><BR>----<BR><BR>Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . .<BR><BR>Washington Poe has a story to tell.<BR><BR>And he needs you to listen.<BR><BR>You'll hear how it started with t he robber birds. Crows. Dozens of them. Enough for a murder . . .<BR><BR>He'll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it. He'll tell you how the man's murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family.<BR><BR>And finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair. And why people would rather kill themselves than talk about it . . .<BR><BR>Poe hopes you've been paying attention. Because in this story, nothing is as it seems . . .<BR><BR>----<BR><BR>'Craven renders the darkness of the human condition with immense skill, ratcheting the tension to a nails-on-chalkboard pitch. Don't turn out the lights.' Vaseem Khan<BR><BR>MORE PRAISE FOR MW CRAVEN:<BR><BR>'The kind of novel that inspired me to write fiction in the first place. A guaranteed great time.' Chris Brookmyre<BR><BR>'Darkly entertaining' The Telegraph<BR><BR>'If you haven't read any M.W. Craven yet, fix that immediately' S. A. Cosby<BR><BR>'I've been following M.W. Craven's Poe/Tilly series from the very beginning, and it just gets better and better' Peter Robinson<BR><BR>'Poe and Tilly books are a joy' Steve Cavanagh<BR><BR>'In Tilly and Poe, M.W. Craven has created a stand-out duo who are two of the most compelling characters in crime fiction in recent years' Fiona Cummins<BR><BR>'Darkly comic . . . Thrilling' The Independent<BR><BR>'Clever, sophisticated, utterly gripping thriller from one of the best writers around' Mari Hannah<BR><BR>'Craven has unleashed Ben Koenig into the thriller world. Long may he raise hell in the pages. A superb thriller that will have everyone talking, and gasping.'¿David Baldacci<BR><BR>'Paging Lee and Andrew Child: you've got company' The Times