In the summer of 1961, the small American town of New Bremen was overwhelmed by a wave of deaths. One of the dead was eighteen-year-old beauty Ariel, whose body was found in the river. Younger girls, teenagers Frank and Jake, do not believe in an accident, and even more so in the fact that their sister committed suicide. They are trying to find the killer and understand the motives for his crime." Simple Mercy" is a psychological novel by William Kent Kruger, written in the best traditions of the genre of "southern prose."