![]() ![]() You’ll find yourself cheering for Bellamy’s long, agonizing death. There are flies on dead bodies, melting faces and eyeballs split like grapes. At times it feels too contrived, almost as if King is picturing the movie in his head, flashing back decades to fill in holes in the story.īut there’s nothing else to nitpick about. The plot tumbles along, with the past informing the present and the suspense building until the end. ![]() ![]() At 432 pages, this qualifies as a novella in the King canon. Mercedes.” Retired cop Bill Hodges, autistic office manager Holly Gibney and Harvard student Jerome Robinson get involved with the case after Pete’s sister Tina tells them she thinks her brother is in trouble. Mom and dad are on the brink of divorce, dad’s life having radically changed when he was a victim of the “Mercedes Killer” a few years ago.Įnter King’s new Scooby Gang, introduced in “Mr. Thats when retired detective Bill Hodges - who has set up a company called Finders Keepers - discovers the scheme. And hes hell-bent on recovering the notebooks. While Bellamy’s doing time, a young boy named Pete Saubers, who is also in love with the work of the late Rothstein, finds those notebooks and figures out they could secure his family’s fortune. When he discovers a buried trunk of money and notebooks of a famous writer, he has the means to rescue his family from poverty. ![]()
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