'Macabre and wry'
Telegraph
 
'Mesmerising, macabre and magnificent. The Mercy Chair is truly terrifying, laugh-out-loud funny, and impossibly clever. Poe and Tilly are unstoppable'
Chris Whitaker
 
'Washington Poe is a brilliant creation, from one of the finest and most inventive crime writers of today'
Peter James
 
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . . Washington Poe has a story to tell.

And he needs you to listen. You'll hear how it started with the robber birds. Crows.

Dozens of them. Enough for a murder . . . He'll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it.
 
He'll tell you how the man's murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family.

And finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair. And why people would rather kill themselves than talk about it . . . Poe hopes you've been paying attention.
 
Because in this story, nothing is as it seems . . .