# The Mystery of Mercy Close

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- Authors: [Marian Keyes](https://www.bookquiver.com/marian-keyes)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-05-04

## Description

" I employ this thing called The Shovel List." " A shovel...?" " No. A Shovel List. It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much that I want to hit them in the face with a shovel." 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 - the target: Wayne Diffney, the 'Wacky One' from boyband Laddz.. 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. Utterly compelling, moving and very very funny, The Mystery of Mercy Close is unlike any novel you've ever read and Helen Walsh - courageous, vulnerable and wasp-tongued - is the perfect heroine for our times.

## Editions

### The Mystery of Mercy Close

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-309-8
- Pages: 608
- Published: 2017-05-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Mystery of Mercy Close

- Publisher: Plume
- ISBN: 978-01-4218-079-2
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2014-03-25
- Language: en_US