The Anatomy of Mercy - Couverture souple

O'Connell, Brendan

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798178769744

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Mercy is supposed to save you. Graham Vale has a different definition.

Detective Mina Mercer has seen death before. But she has never seen anything like this.

A young woman is discovered deep in the forest, arranged beneath an elaborate pair of antlered wings. The scene is horrifying. Beautiful. Deliberate. And it is only the beginning.

As more bodies appear, no two murders are alike. Each victim has been transformed into something grotesquely artistic—a message written in flesh, nature, symbolism, and ritual. Someone isn’t simply killing people.

Someone is creating.

Then there is Graham Vale.

Quiet. Capable. Darkly funny. A backcountry search-and-rescue volunteer who notices things other people miss, Graham becomes an unlikely asset to Mina’s investigation—and eventually something far more dangerous to her carefully guarded heart.

Around his fire, miles from civilization, Mina finds a rare kind of peace. Graham cooks extraordinary meals over flame and smoke. He listens. He understands her. And while an increasingly sophisticated killer seems to stay one step ahead of the investigation, Mina begins falling for the man helping her hunt him.

But the evidence is changing.

Victims are missing pieces.

Certain details don’t make sense.

And Mina is beginning to understand that the most terrifying possibility isn’t that she has failed to recognize the monster.

It’s that she already loves him.

And when the truth finally arrives, Mina will have to reconsider every crime scene she’s examined, every conversation she’s trusted—

and every meal she’s eaten.

The Anatomy of Mercy is a disturbing psychological horror novel about obsession, ritual, cannibalism, intimacy, and a killer who believes murder isn’t cruelty at all.

It’s liberation.

Beautiful things decay.

Decay feeds life.

And Graham Vale has always believed that mercy should leave nothing behind.

A novel by Brendan O’Connell.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798178769744
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 110
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg