{"product_id":"the-mercy-chair-9780349135595","title":"The Mercy Chair","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Macabre and wry' \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Mesmerising, macabre and magnificent. The Mercy Chair is truly terrifying, laugh-out-loud funny, and impossibly clever. Poe and Tilly are unstoppable' \u003cb\u003eChris Whitaker\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003eWashington Poe is a brilliant creation, from one of the finest and most inventive crime writers of today' \u003cb\u003ePeter James\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e----\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAre you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWashington Poe has a story to tell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd he needs you to listen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou'll hear how it started with the robber birds. Crows. Dozens of them. Enough for a murder . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair. And why people would rather kill themselves than talk about it . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoe hopes you've been paying attention. Because in this story, nothing is as it seems . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e----\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'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.' \u003cb\u003eVaseem Khan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMORE PRAISE FOR MW CRAVEN: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'The kind of novel that inspired me to write fiction in the first place. A guaranteed great time.' \u003cb\u003eChris Brookmyre\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Darkly entertaining' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'If you haven't read any M.W. Craven yet, fix that immediately' \u003cb\u003eS. A. Cosby\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'I've been following M.W. Craven's Poe\/Tilly series from the very beginning, and it just gets better and better' \u003cb\u003ePeter Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Poe and Tilly books are a joy' \u003cb\u003eSteve Cavanagh\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eFiona Cummins\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Darkly comic . . . Thrilling' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Clever, sophisticated, utterly gripping thriller from one of the best writers around' \u003cb\u003eMari Hannah\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'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.' \u003cb\u003eDavid Baldacci\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Paging Lee and Andrew Child: you've got company' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12945269\"\u003eM. W. Craven\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Constable \u0026amp; Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.75h x 5.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780349135595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0349135592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC031010\"\u003eThrillers | Crime\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC022020\"\u003eMystery \u0026amp; Detective | Police Procedural\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMulti-award-winning author \u003cb\u003eM.W. Craven \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Carlisle but grew up in Newcastle. He joined the army at sixteen, leaving ten years later to complete a social work degree. Seventeen years after taking up a probation officer role in Cumbria, at the rank of assistant chief officer, he became a full-time author. He is an instant Sunday Times bestseller and, for his Cumbria-set Washington Poe series, a recipient of the 2019 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, the 2022 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023. 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