Name: Without Mercy
ISBN: 9780142004555

Renate Dorrestein

Their ideal family life shattered by the senseless murder of their beloved and promising teenage son, Phinus and Franka Vermeer find their marriage increasingly strained in the ensuing emotional turmoil. Reprint.

Without Mercy

Sarah Escorsa

I just finished reading this book last night and let's just say it left me...disconcerted! I love Dorrestein's writing style and the themes she develops here but the plot is just... I don't know, I just don't get it! When I first started reading the book, I was enjoying it a lot (actually even more than I did A Heart of Stone) but then I got to page 90 or so and the "bridge incident" in Groningen and I thought: seriously?! For me, the book just goes downhill from there, the plot is just very disappointing and doesn't make much sense, what a shame...