Back blurb: At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months to unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first.
Copenhagen detective Carl Morck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says it's a waste of time. He thinks they're right.
The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times: WHY is this happening?
About the author: Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write fiction. Mercy (The Woman in the Cage) is the first of four novels in the Department Q series. He holds the prestigious Glass Key Award, given annually for a crime novel by a Scandinavian author, and in 2011 also won the Golden Laurels, Denmark's highest literary accolade, awarded by the Danish book trade. Mercy was released on the English, Australian and Indian market on 13 May 2011 to become a No 1 International Bestseller and is translated from the Danish by Lisa Hartford.
Visit Jussi Adler-Olser's website at www.jussiadlerolsen.dk
Below, in three parts, the author talks about how his book came to be published, the characters in his book and the research entailed to write this book:
The book trailer for Mercy:
This interview of the author from shotsmag.co.uk merits a read.
Excellent and funny. Gripping plot. Interesting characters. That says it all.
Mark my works, Adler-Olsen is an author to watch out for in 2011.
I look forward to the next book in the series named Disgrace, out in January 2012.
Rating: 5/5
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