Mercy by David Kessler
In David Kessler's Mercy, San Francisco lawyer Alex Sedaka is surprised when California governor Chuck Dusenbury offers eleventh-hour clemency to Sedaka's client Clayton Burrow - currently on Death Row - on the condition that Burrow reveals where he buried the body of the victim.
But he is even more surprised when Burrow turns down the offer, insisting that he was framed by the missing girl herself. Until then, Sedaka - who only recently took over the case - thought that Burrow was guilty. But now he is not so sure.
Thus begins a race against time to unravel the mystery, with the unlikely cooperation of the mother of the missing girl, who persuaded the governor to make the clemency offer in the first place.
" A cracking thriller." -- James O'Brian, LBC Radio
"This will keep you on the edge of your seat right until the end." -- Closer magazine
After dropping out of school at the age of 15, David Kessler struggled for 25 years to get published before finally making his breakthrough with A Fool for a Client, a legal thriller set in New York. This was followed by The Other Victim, Tarnished Heroes and Reckless Justice. He courted controversy by co-writing Who Really Killed Rachel (about an infamous 1992 London murder) with Colin Stagg, the man falsely accused of the murder who was then widely believed to be guilty. The book - now out of print - named the man who was eventually convicted of the crime.
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