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A review by marilynw
No Mercy by Joanna Schaffhausen
4.0
No Mercy is another fine offering in the Ellery Hathaway series. Police officer Ellery Hathaway and FBI profiler Reed Markham are back, in this second book in the series. Ellery is living in an apartment in Boston, away from her job, having to attend group therapy due to shooting a serial killer, in cold blood, last summer, and not apologizing for doing so. She immediately begins looking into the cases of two women in her victims therapy group and asks Reed for his help, because his expertise and resources as an FBI agent can open doors that are shut or have never been open to Ellery.
Ellery tends to do things her way, often the most dangerous way and I usually roll my eyes when a main character throws themselves into obvious, unneeded danger but in Ellery's case, she thinks she's living on borrowed time, that she shouldn't even be alive anyway. The torture, rape, and continued emotional abuse thrown at her from the behind bars, serial killer that killed sixteen girls before she was rescued, will never leave Ellery. She doesn't understand why she was the one to live and she can't ever stop allowing what happened to her when she was fourteen, to color all of her present life. So Ellery throws herself at these two cases, an arson, that killed a two year old boy, over twenty five years ago and a rape that took place in the past year.
Reed risks his potential promotion with the FBI, to help Ellery. Rescuing Ellery from her serial killer has affected him forever also. The rescue and the book he wrote about it has made him a hero, although he later fell from grace. Still he can never stop trying to rescue Ellery, from the danger she runs headlong into and from herself.
Pub January 15, 2019.
Thank you to St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books and NetGalley for this ARC.
Ellery tends to do things her way, often the most dangerous way and I usually roll my eyes when a main character throws themselves into obvious, unneeded danger but in Ellery's case, she thinks she's living on borrowed time, that she shouldn't even be alive anyway. The torture, rape, and continued emotional abuse thrown at her from the behind bars, serial killer that killed sixteen girls before she was rescued, will never leave Ellery. She doesn't understand why she was the one to live and she can't ever stop allowing what happened to her when she was fourteen, to color all of her present life. So Ellery throws herself at these two cases, an arson, that killed a two year old boy, over twenty five years ago and a rape that took place in the past year.
Reed risks his potential promotion with the FBI, to help Ellery. Rescuing Ellery from her serial killer has affected him forever also. The rescue and the book he wrote about it has made him a hero, although he later fell from grace. Still he can never stop trying to rescue Ellery, from the danger she runs headlong into and from herself.
Pub January 15, 2019.
Thank you to St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books and NetGalley for this ARC.