Angel of Mercy will appeal to readers who like their thrillers thought-provoking, morally dangerous, and psychologically intimate—where the scariest question isn’t who dies, but who gets to decide.
Similar to The Silent Patient, Shutter Island, Never Let Me Go, and The Good Nurse.
Dr. Jim Briggs saves lives for a living—mostly canine ones. By night, among Chicago’s forgotten homeless, he offers a different kind of mercy.
When suffering becomes unbearable and hope runs out, Briggs delivers peaceful deaths using the same drugs he uses to euthanize animals. No witnesses. No money exchanged. No second thoughts—or so he tells himself.
To the people he helps, he is a savior.
To the law, he would be a murderer.
To himself, he is walking a line no one should ever cross.
As Briggs’ secret grows heavier, the lives he touches refuse to stay neatly resolved. Some people who ask to die begin to want to live. Others don’t. And the closer Briggs comes to believing he alone knows what mercy means, the more fragile his moral certainty becomes.
Set against the brutal realities of homelessness, addiction, and grief, Angel of Mercy is a haunting psychological thriller about compassion without limits—and the terrifying cost of deciding who deserves to live.
Genre: Mystery
Similar to The Silent Patient, Shutter Island, Never Let Me Go, and The Good Nurse.
Dr. Jim Briggs saves lives for a living—mostly canine ones. By night, among Chicago’s forgotten homeless, he offers a different kind of mercy.
When suffering becomes unbearable and hope runs out, Briggs delivers peaceful deaths using the same drugs he uses to euthanize animals. No witnesses. No money exchanged. No second thoughts—or so he tells himself.
To the people he helps, he is a savior.
To the law, he would be a murderer.
To himself, he is walking a line no one should ever cross.
As Briggs’ secret grows heavier, the lives he touches refuse to stay neatly resolved. Some people who ask to die begin to want to live. Others don’t. And the closer Briggs comes to believing he alone knows what mercy means, the more fragile his moral certainty becomes.
Set against the brutal realities of homelessness, addiction, and grief, Angel of Mercy is a haunting psychological thriller about compassion without limits—and the terrifying cost of deciding who deserves to live.
Genre: Mystery
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