The Absence of Mercy: A Novel FIC027390 Wicked is the best fantasy

Wicked is the best fantasy novel of ideas I've read since Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast or Frank Herbert's Dune

and the war

The people of Greymist Fair know the woods are a dangerous and magical place

she's juggling two prominent and wealthy suitors

and mistaken identities worthy of maestro Hitchcock himself

The Absence of Mercy: A Novel FIC027390 Wicked is the best fantasyJohn Burleys The Absence of Mercy is a harrowing tale of suspense involving a brutal murder and dark secrets that lie beneath the surface of a placid, tight knit Midwestern town. When a brutally murdered teenager is discovered in the woods surrounding a small Ohio town, Dr. Ben Stevensonthe towns medical examinermust decide if hes willing to put his familys life in danger to uncover the truth. Finding himself pulled deeper into an investigation with