{"id":273,"date":"2014-04-19T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/04\/19\/mercy-by-jussi-adler-olsen\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:07","slug":"mercy-by-jussi-adler-olsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/mercy-by-jussi-adler-olsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;\">This thriller by Danish author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jussi_Adler-Olsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jussi Adler-Olsen<\/a>  is well-balanced, switching as it does between the victim, Merete, and the detective, Carl M\u00f6rck, giving equal attention to both. Like a painting, it is built up in layers, each layer handing out just a little more information while, at the same time, adding more anxiety to the overall story. As the horror of Merete&#8217;s situation becomes gradually apparent, the reader is at times a step ahead of the detective, at times miles behind. The ending is, as expected, dramatic. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurocrime.co.uk\/reviews\/Mercy2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A great read<\/a> if you are looking for something that will remove you from reality for a few hours.<span><i> <\/i>The title in Danish is <i>Kvinden i buret,<\/i> while in America the book is called <i>The Keeper of Lost Causes.<\/i> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-TwatahMz9tk\/U1GwlwmfRNI\/AAAAAAAABRE\/miK_v1AImu0\/s1600\/th.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-TwatahMz9tk\/U1GwlwmfRNI\/AAAAAAAABRE\/miK_v1AImu0\/s1600\/th.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo of&nbsp; Jussi Adler-Olsen from Wikipedia<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: none; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thriller by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen is well-balanced, switching as it does between the victim, Merete, and the detective, Carl M\u00f6rck, giving equal attention to both. Like a painting, it is built up in layers, each layer handing out just a little more information while, at the same time, adding more anxiety to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/mercy-by-jussi-adler-olsen\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}