Mercy

Présentation de l'éditeur Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the town's residents by blood and honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he's killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isn't as clear to Cam's wife, Allie. While she is devoted to her husband, she finds herself siding against Cam, seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that he'd grant all her wishes... even the one that meant taking her life. Into this charged atmosphere drifts Mia, a new assistant at Allie's floral shop, for whom Cam feels an instant and inexplicable attraction. While he aids the prosecution in preparing the case against Jamie, who killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy, Cam finds himself betraying his own wife. Revue de presse Picoult fans will not be disappointed . . . a pleasure to pick up, and impossible to put down ( Daily Express) If you're after a book that will have you utterly enthralled and stay with you long after you've finished it, look no further ( Heat) Picoult's novel . . . reminds us how easy it is to jump to conclusions and to do all the wrong things for all the right reasons ( Glamour) Engrossing . . . Picoult has a remarkable ability to make us share her characters' feelings of confusion and horror ( People) Biographie de l'auteur Jodi Picoult grew up in Nesconset, New York. She received an A.B. in creative writing from Princeton and a master's degree in education from Harvard. Her previous novels include Keeping Faith, The Pact, and The Tenth Circle. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.