[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"work-reviews-detail-the-mercy-chair-fins":3,"work-reviews-list-the-mercy-chair-fins":125},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"original_title":7,"description":8,"first_publish_year":9,"original_language":10,"primary_cover_url":11,"cover_3d_url":12,"cover_blurhash":13,"preferred_edition_id":7,"community_rating_avg":14,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":16,"estimated_reading_minutes":17,"shelves_added_this_week":18,"enrichment_status":19,"community_depth_avg":7,"community_momentum_avg":7,"community_atmosphere_avg":7,"community_craft_avg":7,"community_impact_avg":7,"community_spice_avg":7,"is_non_fiction":20,"is_romance":20,"is_indexable":21,"rating_distribution":22,"authors":23,"genres":30,"characters":51,"places":60,"subjects":61,"series":79,"editions":84,"enrichment":103,"community_distribution":7,"default_edition":122,"faqs":123,"reviews_count":15,"contributions_count":18,"quotes_count":18,"photos_count":18,"created_at":124},"01kr81ky770wz1d0tqe8cv6nvy","the-mercy-chair-fins","The Mercy Chair",null,"Detective Washington Poe investigates a brutal murder where a man is stoned to death, his body marked with an unbreakable code. This chilling case leads Poe to a fifteen-year-old family massacre and the terrifying legend of the 'mercy chair,' a mystery so dark people choose death over speaking of it. As Poe uncovers the truth, he realizes that nothing is as it appears.",2024,"en","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kr81kyp3cjyfxvwg0rs61rpy.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks-3d\u002F01\u002F01kr81ky770wz1d0tqe8cv6nvy.png?v=72186751ae","LQNwNFtltlnOa0W;NGRj~qweX8kW","4.00",1,408,464,0,"pending",false,true,[18,18,18,18,18,18,18,15,18,18],[24],{"id":25,"slug":26,"name":27,"role":28,"bio":29},"01kqfxfjpv1msderqg5hpa59rb","mw-craven-vm8k","M.W. Craven","author","M.W. Craven delivers gripping crime thrillers, with popular books such as *Strangers and Psychos*, *El procurador*, and *Verano negro*. Readers looking for suspense and dark themes will find his work hard to put down.",[31,35,39,43,47],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":21},5,"Thriller","thriller",{"id":36,"name":37,"slug":38,"is_fiction":21},6,"Mystery","mystery",{"id":40,"name":41,"slug":42,"is_fiction":21},40,"Suspense","suspense",{"id":44,"name":45,"slug":46,"is_fiction":21},41,"Psychological Thriller","psychological-thriller",{"id":48,"name":49,"slug":50,"is_fiction":21},44,"Crime","crime",[52,56],{"id":53,"name":54,"description":7,"role":55,"is_spoiler":20},"01kr81kyq5w337tj37469f1y5k","Washington Poe","protagonist",{"id":57,"name":58,"description":7,"role":59,"is_spoiler":20},"01kr81kyq7serspvrtb34t7q6c","Tilly Bradshaw","supporting",[],[62,66,69,72,75,77],{"id":63,"name":64,"type":65},"01kjq7prptkrhh0ysgmt6vrpey","Mystery & Detective","subject",{"id":67,"name":68,"type":65},"01kjsqdfqyavb0e6brgs67dy2w","Hard-Boiled",{"id":70,"name":71,"type":65},"01kjxmv42hjf4wefwg09bq6dkk","Police Procedural",{"id":73,"name":74,"type":65},"01kjq7cgzpvgfzthz60sbhzqw7","Thrillers",{"id":76,"name":41,"type":65},"01kjq6vr2t1g7zgpxzbq9p8f3f",{"id":78,"name":49,"type":65},"01kjq6vr30v8w0cpga6zd9vnbq",[80],{"id":81,"slug":82,"name":54,"position":83,"is_main_entry":21,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kqfxfjqx4zvwsechseavr9bw","washington-poe-7dqk","6.00",[85,95],{"id":86,"title":6,"edition_name":7,"format":87,"format_label":88,"page_count":89,"audio_duration_minutes":7,"narrator":7,"publish_date":90,"cover_url":11,"cover_blurhash":13,"isbn_13":91,"asin":7,"publisher":92,"language":10,"quality_score":93,"submission_status":94},"01kr81kyp3cjyfxvwg0rs61rpy","unknown","Unknown",384,"2024-12-05","9780349135595","Little, Brown Book Group Limited",10,"approved",{"id":96,"title":6,"edition_name":97,"format":87,"format_label":88,"page_count":98,"audio_duration_minutes":7,"narrator":7,"publish_date":99,"cover_url":100,"cover_blurhash":7,"isbn_13":101,"asin":7,"publisher":102,"language":10,"quality_score":93,"submission_status":94},"01kr81kypbdcs0ndx35b6wamzj","1",432,"2024-06-06","https:\u002F\u002Fimages.isbndb.com\u002Fcovers\u002F7809403482312.jpg","9780349135588","Hachette Book Group",{"summary":8,"pace":104,"complexity":105,"complexity_score":106,"audience":107,"mood":108,"themes":113,"setting_period":116,"content_warnings":117},"fast","dense",7,"adult",[109,110,111,112],"dark","tense","gritty","funny",[114,115],"mystery-box","dual-timeline","Contemporary",[118,119,120,121],"violence","graphic-violence","suicide","trauma",{"id":86,"title":6,"edition_name":7,"format":87,"format_label":88,"page_count":89,"audio_duration_minutes":7,"publish_date":90,"cover_url":11,"cover_blurhash":13,"isbn_13":91,"asin":7,"publisher":92,"language":10},[],"2026-05-10T04:16:38.000000Z",{"data":126,"links":137,"meta":138},[127],{"id":128,"slug":129,"title":130,"user":7,"work_id":4,"is_draft":20,"verified_reader":21,"featured":20,"body":131,"overall_rating":132,"depth":7,"momentum":7,"atmosphere":7,"craft":7,"impact":7,"spice":7,"spoiler_level":133,"locale":7,"feed_item_key":134,"like_count":18,"comment_count":18,"top_likers":135,"viewer_can_reply":20,"created_at":136,"updated_at":136},"01kr81m020413jyn0yeg9v3vja","review-of-the-mercy-chair-by-deleted-258","Review of \"The Mercy Chair\" by deleted_258","A thrilling psycho related premise with biblical and religious fanaticism\u002Fcult theme following Poe (and Tilly) in a brutal murder investigation of a conservative church leader who has been found tied to a tree and stoned to death. Such neat and well structured for its multiple back and forth timelines in between the episodic events of the murder and Poe in his memory of revisiting the crime scene while sitting and talking to a trauma therapist about his nightmares at a psychiatric hospital. \n\nPacey with short chapters (plus point!) and it piqued me on how dark and tense it goes— from Cornelius Green’s death that suddenly unraveled a connection to a tragic murder case from 15 years prior to a harrowing finding that relates to one’s morality madness due to past trauma and abuse, bit dense and puzzling with suspicious characters; I was spooked during the finding Aaron’s photo scene, a foreseen suspense yet it thrilled me on how Poe would go altering the truth and exposing the villain. \n\nTilly’s straightforwardness still a charm, she’s brilliant like always and loved her interaction and dynamic with Poe. Pity Snoopy for need to survive those sarcastic remarks but like Poe, I can’t trust Snoopy too for his sneaky motive. It gets bit aggressive and too twisty later, of justice, resentment and revenge, and as I thought the crime revelation was the end, Poe brought me into the present setting with his psychological episode; quite cunning and I loved how one of the character go unreliable and enthrallingly unhinged at the end. \n\n**tw: graphic suicide scenes\n\n(Thank you Pansing Distribution for sending me a copy to review!)",4,"none","rv-01kr81m020413jyn0yeg9v3vja",[],"2026-05-10T04:16:40.000000Z",{"first":7,"last":7,"prev":7,"next":7},{"path":139,"per_page":140,"next_cursor":7,"prev_cursor":7,"has_more":20},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fapi\u002Fworks\u002F01kr81ky770wz1d0tqe8cv6nvy\u002Freviews",20]