Book info

• Title Finders Keepers
• Author Stephen King
• Year 2015
• Genre Horror

1978: Morris Bellamy is a reader so obsessed by America's iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel. 2009: Pete Saubers, a boy whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes, discovers a buried trunk containing cash and Rothstein's notebooks. 2014: After thirty-five years in prison, Morris is up for parole. And he's hell-bent on recovering his treasure. Now it's up to retired detective Bill Hodges - running an investigative company called Finders Keepers with Holly Gibney - to rescue Pete from an ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris​.

Thoughts

I love Stephen King’s writing, so I had no problem whizzing through this book. I’m in two minds about it though - because the big picture mystery and crime was fascinating and well crafted (if a little unbelievable), but there was so little of Bill and Holly that it didn’t feel like a Mr Mercedes follow up really. They were barely involved until right near the end and had very little impact on any of it. But I enjoyed reading it and will definitely be reading the next one, so it can’t have been that bad.

Rating: 3 / 5