So be sure to pick up the book first at your local Dallas Public Library location. Mercedes just finished its 10 episode first season in October and has already been picked up for a second season set to air next year.

If you enjoy the fantastic elements of works such as Carrie, this book might be up your alley. It bears the stamp of spookiness that one expects from Stephen King. This thrilling conclusion introduces the supernatural in a way that neither of its two predecessors did. However, a mysterious rash of suicides occurring to those close to Brady Hartfield hides an even more terrifying truth. Brady Hartfield is left in a supposedly vegetative state after injuries sustained at the end of Mr. Mercedes killer, returns as the adversary to Bill Hodges. The third and final installment of the trilogy, originally slated to be released under the title The Suicide Prince, was finally released as End of Watch. Now, Detective Bill Hodges returns in this second installment to save Peter from an unstable killer before it’s too late. In a turn of events reminiscent of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn discovering the ill-gotten gains of Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a young boy named Peter Saubers finds the hidden manuscripts of the deceased author. After killing him, Morris Bellamy is locked up for decades but not before he has a chance to stash the author’s unpublished manuscripts. This second novel gives a nod to King’s earlier work Misery with a dissatisfied reader and fanatic turned murderer. Morris Bellamy takes out his frustration on author John Rothstein for an unsatisfactory conclusion to his book series. Mercedes is also the 2015 recipient of the Edgar Award for mystery fiction.įinders Keepers introduces a new villain: Morris Bellamy. This book is a truly exciting read for the mystery fan and the Stephen King fan alike. The narrative jumps back and forth between the points of view of Bill Hodges and gives an interesting look into the mind of an insane killer. The story’s protagonist, the recently retired detective Bill Hodges, makes it his personal responsibility to find the culprit after receiving a letter purporting to originate from the attacker and threatening to strike again.

Mercedes, a killer drives a stolen Mercedes through a crowd outside a job fair, killing eight and injuring others. Mercedes, followed by Finders Keepers, and concludes with End of Watch. With the recent film releases of The Dark Tower and It, there’s no better time to explore something a little bit different from the master of horror Stephen King in the form of The Bill Hodges Trilogy.

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