The pace of the trial is slow, but Picoult pays loving attention to her central characters, fashioning a sensitive exploration of the balance of love. As Jamie's court case proceeds, Picoult plumbs the emotional core of both marriages. Like Jamie, Allie is the marriage partner who loves more. Allie gets involved in Jamie's case, and Cam, who has spent his life in service to his community and his clan, falls in love with Mia and begins an affair that will bring his marriage to the breaking point and change it profoundly.

14.95 a month plus applicable taxes after 30 day trial. Mercy What Were Reading Now Jodi Picoult is an amazing author, so I was excited to start reading another book by her. The Plus Cataloguelisten all you want to thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts, and audiobooks.

On the same day, Cam's wife, Allie, the local florist, hires Mia, a violet-eyed beauty with a genius for flower arranging. Mercy Written by: Jodi Picoult Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan Length: 17 hrs 4.2 (17 ratings) Try for 0.00 1 credit a month, good for any title to download and keep. But as police chief, Cam must also prosecute. On a seemingly ordinary day in Wheelock, Jamie MacDonald, a cousin of Cameron's, drives to the police station and announces: ''My wife here, Maggie, is dead, and I'm the one who killed her.'' Cam finds himself saddled with a murder case and a conflict of interest: his cousin has given in to the pleas of his cancer-ravaged wife to kill her, and he's come to the clan chief to confess. The setting is Wheelock, Mass., a slightly eccentric town where most of the residents are of Scottish descent, where weddings end in a blood vow, the name MacDonald is ''painted on an alarming number of mailboxes'' and police chief Cameron MacDonald doubles as clan chief and protector. Mercy is a novel that explores the meaning of not only the word mercy, but love and loyalty, as well. Once she completed her graduate degree, she taught creative writing in high school. After college, Jodi had jobs on Wall Street, in the field of textbook publishing, and at an advertising agency. What could have been a competent, topical novel about a mercy killing becomes, in Picoult's (following Picture Perfect, 1995) hands, an inspired meditation on love. A graduate of Princeton University with a degree in English and Creative Writing, Picoult also completed a Masters in Education degree from Harvard.

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