num_pages: 208
description: Alicia Bartleby was right - she had died at least 20 times in her husband's imagination. But then Sydney was a thriller script-writer after all. When she takes an extended trip to Brighton without getting in touch with anyone, Sydney goes through the motions of being a wife-killer.
language: English
title: A Suspension of Mercy
titlecomplete: A Suspension of Mercy
characters: Edward Tilbury, Alex, Mrs Grace Lilybanks, Alicia Bartleby, Inspector Brockway, Sydney Bartleby
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Noir, American, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2305
places: London, England, Brighton, England, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, Blycom Heath (fictive), Suffolk, England
publisher: Penguin Books