Brady is a millenial who has 2 lower-rung jobs and lives with his mother. We learn who the killer is almost immediately. (In 2009? Was the internet really so unknown back then?) He refuses to ask his own police department for help, (why?) and adopts a neighboring teen handyman, Jerome, who is good with computers, as his “cop buddy.” Jerome’s tech ability is fortuitous, as the killer wants to communicate in a chat room, and Bill is strangely lacking in tech skills. Hey, I know! What if a killer – a serial killer – taunts him about the case he never solved: the Mercedes Killer? (The killer had plowed the car into a line of job-seekers, 2 of whom we got to know briefly.) Bill immediately cheers up with this challenge and goes to work on figuring out this nutcase. There is a teeny tiny yellow smiley sticker on it, which I mention later! An umbrella only features in the first scene, so this object is not related to the book much, but still, makes a good graphic. He’s a little depressed - maybe a lot depressed - living alone, job over, ex-wife gone, only TV left. Bill Hodges, recently retired police detective, lives in some town in the midwest. For decades, I have been depending on Stephen King to take away the pain of living. Mercedes ~ Book Review by Stephen KingĢ014, Hardback - straight Mystery!, serial killer He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.Mr. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Many of his titles have been turned into celebrated films, TV series and streamed events including IT, 'a book which speaks to everybody' ( Guardian), The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me. His recent titles include The Institute, which was described by the Sunday Express as a 'masterpiece', The Outsider (voted winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for best Mystery and Thriller 2018), and If It Bleeds. Now he's preparing to kill again.Įach starts to close in on the other in a mega-stakes race against time.Ībout the Author: STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all worldwide bestsellers. 1 bestseller introduces retired cop Bill Hodges in a race against time to apprehend a killer.Ī cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring Bill Hodges, a retired cop who is tormented by 'the Mercedes massacre', a case he never solved.īrady Hartsfield, perpetrator of that notorious crime, has sent Hodges a taunting letter. The first standalone novel in Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy ( Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch) – and the basis of Mr Mercedes, an AT&T Audience Original Series starring Brendon Gleeson.ĭescribed as 'the best thriller of the year' Sunday Express, the No.

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