Another in the Mr Mercedes books all of which are brilliant books, love all his books but do prefer these.

Stephen King is an avid reader of Crime books - it seems to be his favourite genre - and his own, latest crime novels have been some of his best of all time. Holly is a character from other novels (and the TV show The Outsider) but this book can be read on its own without worry of missing anything. Be transported into the grotesque and nerve-wrenching tale of two unlikely serial killers. Like delving into a true crime podcast, journey with Holly as she picks apart missing persons cases that reveal the chilling and sinister story of Emily and Rodney Harris.

Holly is another follow on from the Mr Mercedes book ,this is king coming away from horror to thriller,does it yet again really well,to me it's one of his best books ,counted put it down, Highly recommended read l9ved it as all of Kings books ...

If you think of the bad in Stephen King you think of Randall Flagg and if you think of the good only one name can truly inspire loyalty in the reader and that is Holly Gibney. Holly came to the notice of Bill Hodges, who gave her belief in herself, and she soon became an intricate part of the Finders Keepers detective agency......."Holly has come a long way from the shy introvert Bill Hodges met lurking outside a funeral home all those years ago, but that woman still lives inside her and always will"....... Now as sole proprieter of the agency she is investigating a number of seemingly unconnected disappearances, years apart.......what devilish little piece of storytelling has Mr King got in store to delight and horrify us. It becomes apparent very quickly who the perpetrators are and the reasoning behind their murderous acts is what makes "Holly" a brilliant novel. It seems that as the author ages his writing just gets better and better and this is a brilliant tale to delight and horrify in equal measure.

As always, King has presented us with yet another masterpiece that no matter how long the book, you burn through it because you don’t want to put it down! I literally read myself to sleep as I was fighting to stay awake to read it, several times, and when I did finally fall asleep I was dreaming about the book! As the title implies, this one is all about Holly Gibney, who I know is one of Stephen King’s personal favourite characters as well as being a fan favourite, so it only feels right that she should take front and centre stage with her own book. We have seen Holly transform from the timid, shy little mouse in the Bill Hodges trilogy of novels Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch, to a main character in The Outsider, with her new found inner badass, without loosing her personal little quirks that make her her and such a firm favourite. Now in her own book she has to dig deep as she takes on a missing person’s case all on her own because her partner of Finders Keepers detective agency, Pete is off work due to covid. This book is set during covid so King had had to make some tweeks to the storyline because the novella, If It Bleeds, was before covid, but if he hadn’t explained this at the end of the book, I probably wouldn’t have noticed! As Holly begins her investigation into a missing young girl, the more she diggs up, the more skelingtons she finds in some of the most unlikely of places. Both Jerome, and his sister Barbara are back in this book, but with Jerome out of state and Barbara who is also tied up in projects of their own, neither of them can help Holly on this case as much as they’d all like. As Holly begins to start to see a pattern between her case and the disappearances of people before in similar cercomstances she needs to walk a fine line between investigating and becoming a missing person herself! There are no supernatural elements to this book, this is a normal detective novel with what becomes a not so normal stomach churning case! This is a definite must read for all of Kings fans as well as fans of good murder mysteries, crime and thriller novels and anyone who enjoys a really great story! You certainly don’t need to be a horror fan as this isn’t a horror book. The only horror is in the crimes themselves, so please don’t just pass this book over because it’s a Stephen King book and his reputation of the master of horror, this is a book for anyone who loves a really well written ‘who done it’!