

Praise for the series:'Plenty of twists and turns. And Mercy herself is a shapeshifter, sister to coyotes.Īs such, she's tolerated by the 'wolves but definitely down the pecking order.Īs long as she keeps her eyes down and remembers her place, the pack will leave her in peace. Her next-door neighbour is an alpha werewolf - literally, the leader of the pack.

She's a mechanic, and a damn good one, who spends her spare time karate training and tinkering with a VW bus that happens to belong to a vampire. 'Mercedes Thompson runs a garage in the Tri-Cities. My nose isn't at its best when surrounded by axle grease and burnt oil. "In the increasingly crowded field of kick-ass supernatural heroines, Mercy stands out as one of the best.The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson series - the major urban fantasy hit of the decade'I love these books!' Charlaine HarrisThe best new fantasy series I've read in years' Kelley ArmstrongMERCY THOMPSON: MECHANIC, SHAPESHIFTER, FIGHTERI didn't realize he was a werewolf at first. Mercy asks her neighbor Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack, for assistance.īut Mercy's act of kindness has unexpected consequences that leave her no choice but to seek help from those she once considered family-the werewolves who abandoned her. A half-starved teenage boy arrives at her shop looking for work, only to reveal that he's a newly changed werewolf-on the run and desperately trying to control his animal instincts. So she's turned her talent for fixing cars into a business and now runs a one-woman mechanic shop in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State.īut Mercy's two worlds are colliding. Mercy Thompson is a shapeshifter, and while she was raised by werewolves, she can never be one of them, especially after the pack ran her off for having a forbidden love affair. Moon Called is the novel that introduced Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson to the world and launched a #1 bestselling phenomenon.
