Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012) Talisman (with Peter Straub) 1. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. Mercedes 8.9 / 10 Full Dark,no Stars 8.9 / 10 Lisey’s Story 8.9 / 10 Mile 81 8. When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Show More Books by Stephen King: Insomnia 9.56 / 10 It 9.2 / 10 The Waste Lands 9.2 / 10 From a Buick 8 9.1 / 10 The Talisman 9 / 10 The Institute 8.95 / 10 Mr. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. “Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.” -BILL HODGES Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
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