Helen Walsh doesn’t believe in fear – it’s just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs – and yet she’s sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some old demons have resurfaced.
Not least in the form of her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who shows up with a missing persons case. Money is tight and Jay is awash with cash, so Helen is forced to take on the task of finding Wayne Diffney, the ‘Wacky One’ from boyband Laddz.
Things ended messily with Jay. And she’s never going back there. Besides she has a new boyfriend now, the very sexy detective Artie Devlin and it’s all going well. But the reappearance of Jay is stirring up all kinds of stuff she thought she’d left behind.
Playing by her own rules, Helen is drawn into a dark and glamorous world, where her worst enemy is her own head and where increasingly the only person she feels connected to is Wayne, a man she’s never even met.
‘A brilliant, unusual, brave, sexy, book . . . will confirm Keyes's place as one of our finest writers’
Jojo Moyes
'Zips along with engaging characters, fabulous plotting and spot-on dialogue. Marian Keyes: what a genius'
Daily Mail
'Gut-bustingly funny'
Independent on Sunday
'When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is in a class of her own'
Daily Express
'The Mystery of Mercy Close is brilliantly funny. It is also dark and brave and strange'
Sunday Express
'Keyes's portrayal of depression is nuanced and authentic. Helen's vibrant voice is spot-on'
Publishers Weekly
‘A brilliant, unusual, brave, sexy, book . . . will confirm Keyes's place as one of our finest writers’
Jojo Moyes
'Zips along with engaging characters, fabulous plotting and spot-on dialogue. Marian Keyes: what a genius'
Daily Mail
'Gut-bustingly funny'
Independent on Sunday
'When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is in a class of her own'
Daily Express
'The Mystery of Mercy Close is brilliantly funny. It is also dark and brave and strange'
Sunday Express
'Keyes's portrayal of depression is nuanced and authentic. Helen's vibrant voice is spot-on'
Publishers Weekly
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