The Mystery of Mercy Close Audiobook (Free)

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Marian Keye’s heartbreaking stunner of the novel, The Secret of Mercy Close, read by the actress Niamh Daly.

Helen Walsh doesn’t believe in fear – it’s just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs – yet she’s sinking. Her are a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some previous demons have resurfaced.

Not least by means of her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who turns up about The Mystery of Mercy Close using a missing persons case. Money is limited and Jay is awash with cash, so Helen is normally forced to take on the task of locating Wayne Diffney, the ‘Wacky One’ from boyband Laddz.

Items ended messily with Jay. And she’s never going back there. Besides she’s a new sweetheart now, the very sexy detective Artie Devlin and it’s all going well. But the reappearance of Jay is definitely stirring up all sorts of stuff she thought she’d left behind.

Playing by her have rules, Helen is attracted right into a dark and glamorous world, where her worst type of foe is her own head and where increasingly the only person she feels linked to is Wayne, a man she’s never even met.

Utterly powerful, moving and incredibly extremely funny, The Mystery of Mercy Close is unlike any kind of novel you’ve ever read and Helen Walsh – courageous, susceptible and wasp-tongued – may be the perfect heroine for our times.

Compliment for Marian Keyes:

‘When it involves writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is within a class of her own’ Daily Express

‘Zips along with engaging people, fabulous plotting and spot-on dialogue. Marian Keyes: just what a genius’ Daily Email

Marian Keyes’ worldwide bestselling novels include Rachel’s Vacation, Last Possibility Saloon, Sushi for Newbies, Angels, The Various other Side from the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man and The Brightest Star in the Sky. Two series of her journalism, Under the Duvet and Further Beneath the Duvet, will also be available from Penguin.