The Books
A complete six-book arc across one bitter Michigan winter — each a standalone case, all of them circling a single buried truth.
Mercy, Michigan · population 2,000
Six books. One long winter. One funeral home that never wants for business.
A complete six-book arc across one bitter Michigan winter — each a standalone case, all of them circling a single buried truth.
Former death investigator, home to run the family parlor — and the only soul in town who reads a body twice.
The county's lone, overworked investigator. Skeptical of Frankie — for now.
Runs the church bereavement committee and every funeral luncheon. The warmest woman in Mercy.
Frankie's father, fading above the parlor — and holding onto something he should have buried.
The man Walt trained to take over the parlor — and sure it was always meant to be his.
Runs the Blue Owl Diner across the street — and the town's whole gossip switchboard.
Walt's embalmer of thirty years — comic relief, and the keeper of every secret Mercy ever buried.
Walt's old basset hound — keeps the porch warm and misses nothing.
Irene Merritt writes cozy mysteries from an old house in Michigan's Thumb, where the winters run long, the tea runs strong, and the neighbors are never quite as nice as they seem.
The Mercy Murders is her first series — six books set across one snowbound winter in a farm town of two thousand souls and a funeral parlor that never wants for business.
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