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  • Written by: Marian Keyes
  • Narrated by: Niamh Daly
  • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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The Mystery of Mercy Close

Written by: Marian Keyes
Narrated by: Niamh Daly
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Marian Keye’s heartbreaking stunner of a novel, The Mystery of Mercy Close, read by the actress Niamh Daly.

“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.”

Meet Helen - youngest of the Walsh sisters and a law unto herself. She’s easily bored, has an inability to filter her thoughts and was fired from every job she ever had before she found her true calling as a private investigator. But times are tough for PIs, and Helen’s had no choice but to take on the search for AWOL boyband has-been Wayne Diffney: The Wacky One. It’s not all bad this game of Where’s Wayne.

It may have brought her charming crook of an ex Jay Parker back into her life, but it’s giving her an excuse to avoid the usual Walsh family dramas and the intense looks from her gorgeous boyfriend Artie that make her heart beat wildly with lust and panic in equal measure. But most of all it’s an excellent distraction from the huge swarm of black vultures gathering over her head. If she hides out in her target’s empty house on Mercy Close for long enough maybe they’ll go away...But as Helen begins to unravel the mysteries secreted on Mercy Close she discovers a kindred spirit in a man unwilling to be found. Could someone be telling her to look a little closer to home?

©2012 Marian Keyes (P)2012 Penguin Audio

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Not on my Shovel List!

So enjoyed the new special terms in this mystery. Cannot wait to read another by Keyes.
She has filled me with hope

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Loved it

Like all MK books, top marks for hilarity and seriousness meshed together. Love the Walsh sisters

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Not my favorite MK book.

I am really enjoying all the Marian Keyes books. This one is my least favourite so far. I could not not empathize with or really care about the main character and the storyline did not hold my interest. I found the narrator tried too hard to do a variety of voices and many of them were just silly. I could not even listen to the very end. Now I'm in search for the next MK book.

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