01664cam a2200313 4500 261609641 TxAuBib 20160101120000.0 001214|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00069864 9780743422444 0743422449 TxAuBib Picoult, Jodi, 1966- Mercy / Jodi Picoult. New York : Pocket Books, 2001 printing. 400 p. ; 21 cm. Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's, c1996. Mercy is set in a small Massachusetts town where Cameron MacDonald, a modern incarnation of a Scottish laird, is the handsome, well-respected police chief. In spite of appearances, he's actually quite unhappy & emotionally ill-prepared for the arrival of two unsettling strangers: a long-forgotten cousin, Jamie, who is carrying the body of his adored wife, Maggie, in his truck, & Mia, a beautiful, penniless traveler seeking shelter for herself, her cat Kafka, & her bonsai trees. It is Allie, Cam's calm, competent, & loving wife, a florist, who offers Jamie, who has confessed to the mercy killing of his terminally ill wife, succor & who provides Mia with a job. But, as they say, no good deed goes unpunished, & Allie must contend with Cam & Mia's steamy affair. 20160101. Police chiefs Fiction. Married people Fiction. Euthanasia Fiction. Adultery Fiction. Cousins Fiction. Massachusetts Fiction. Domestic fiction. Legal stories.