Mercy Killing British author Lisa Cutts (
Fantastic Fiction), a police officer herself, is her apparently standalone crime thriller, featuring the interesting premise of police officers investigating the murder of a despicable sex offender, which apparently plays around with genre expectations of victim sympathy, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Simon & Schuster UK.
Currently free @
Amazon UK,
iTunes UK,
Google Play,
Kobo (available to UK only when I spot-checked assorted regional stores, YMMV)
If you happen to like this one and wish to read more by the author, another standalone of hers,
Buried Secrets, is currently just £0.99 across UK retailers.
Description
The death of a local sex offender places the police officers at East Rise incident room under immense pressure – they must treat this case like any other murder, but they know what Albie Woodville did and can feel little sympathy. Except, as the investigation progresses, it becomes clear this isn’t just a one-off killing – someone is out for revenge ...