Currently Reading - Mercy, Jussi Adler-Olsen (aka The Keeper of Lost Causes)

I have to confess that I rushed out and got this book as soon as it was released. And then backed away from reading it. Mostly because everyone was reading / talking about this book and I was starting to wonder if I could look at it dispassionately. But there's only so long you can wait ....

From the Blurb:

At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first.

Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck’s been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she’s dead. Everyone says it’s a waste of time. He thinks they’re right.

The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner’s torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times:

WHY is this happening?