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Mercy Street - Mariah Stewart Every day people go missing - sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not. If you’re lucky, they’re found and you don’t have to spend the rest of your life wondering if they’re still out there somewhere, if they need your help and what you can do to get them back.Robert Magellan wasn’t lucky. 15 months ago his wife and son disappeared on their way home from a baby-shower. Nobody has seen or heard from them since. To anybody this would be a tragedy, but for Robert it’s enough to drive him half insane. He hires every PI in the area, and is sorely ripped off by every one of them.Because of this, he’s understandably not too enthusiastic when his cousin, Father Kevin, asks him to pay for a PI to investigate the murder of two teenagers and disappearance of two others. It’s obvious that the events are related, but did the two who disappeared kill the two others? Or are they on the run from an unknown murderer? Robert argues that all PIs are thieves and nothing will come from it, but agrees to pay the check anyway, if Kevin can find one who’s above-board.Ex-detective Mallory is nothing like the other PIs. She’s quick, intelligent and – most importantly – honest. Dedicated to solving the case, she makes certain to turn all stones and look for answers beyond the obvious.Mercy Street is less violent than many suspense novels and instead focuses on the intellectual aspect of solving crime. This makes for a much more interesting book, as one is allowed the chance to solve the clues before Mallory does (I only managed that once, but believe me, I felt proud!). Plot-wise Mercy Street paves the way for a long sequence of books, and I hope Mariah Stewart will continue the series, because even though the book is nicely rounded off, I wanted to know more about the characters, and learn how their internal dynamics developed. Mariah Stewart writes a captivating book that’s hard to put down, but she would have benefited by having her pacing checked by an editor, as especially the romantic sub-plot seemed rather rushed and therefore less believable than it deserved. Still, that minor nit-pick aside I found it a very entertaining and recommendable crime novel.