Mercy Alexander

Description

A photo shoot in the Thames, playing dead: a corpse for the gallery walls. This is Mercy Alexander's work. Enigmatic, glamorous, beautiful - not many people know the real Mercy. She's been an image far too long. But Rose knows, her friend from childhood, her soulmate. A prostitute. Then Rose meets a terrible death and Mercy must confront what she has long feared: that Rose has been selling herself at the city's grandest brothel, and now someone has ended her life for kicks. But the only witness to Rose's death has disappeared and Mercy must turn to someone for help who himself has much to hide . . .

George Tiffin is a writer and film-maker. He has travelled from Siberia to the Seychelles shooting and directing music videos and commercials. His first feature film, Soup, starred Alan Howard as God and Trevor Eve as Lucifer squabbling over the fate of a world indifferent to their ambitions. He lives with his wife and three children in London, close to the river.

'Tiffin has a great sense of atmosphere. His moody descriptions of London and its river make this more than just an intriguing debut' Time Out 'Sex, death, love, beauty, corruption, evil, tragedy, tarts with hearts, ruthless pimps, inscrutable undertakers, oh, and fry-ups and art, too' The List 'A stylish, edgy noir thriller which explores the boundaries of artifice, beauty and the power of the image. The city, a brooding London, is almost a character in its own right in this vivid and intriguing novel' Manchester Evening News 'The images George Tiffin creates are striking, and the prose is resonant' Times Literary Supplement