HORROR NOVEL REVIEW : MR MERCEDES BY STEPHEN KING

MR MERCEDES BY STEPHEN KING

King's latest novel seems, at first look, to veer off into previously uncharted territory for the prolific author. It concerns retired police detective, Bill Hodges, who spends his free time sitting in front of trashy TV shows and idly contemplating what it would be like to put his father's pistol in his mouth and pull the trigger. He is on a downward slope, not least because he is still haunted by the cases that were ongoing or never solved when he retired. The worst of these cases concerns a Mercedes car driven by an unknown assailant into a crowd of people waiting in line at a job fair. It resulted in eight dead and many more injured. The murderer was never caught. Hodges gets a chance and a new lease of purpose when a letter is put through his door claiming to be the Mercedes Killer...

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