Psychopath Brady Hartsfield is getting his mojo back at the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic and that means book three probably isn’t far away.Going back to the year 1978 (31 years before Brady Hartsfield drove a Mercedes into a line at a jobs fair), the novel begins as Morrie and two associates, Curtis Rogers and Freddy Dow, break into the home of reclusive author John Rothstein. You’ll find yourself cheering for Bellamy’s long, agonizing death.īest of all, on the final page, you’ll know that what started with “Mr. There are flies on dead bodies, melting faces and eyeballs split like grapes. At times it feels too contrived, almost as if King is picturing the movie in his head, flashing back decades to fill in holes in the story.īut there’s nothing else to nitpick about. The plot tumbles along, with the past informing the present and the suspense building until the end. At 432 pages, this qualifies as a novella in the King canon.
Mercedes.” Retired cop Bill Hodges, autistic office manager Holly Gibney and Harvard student Jerome Robinson get involved with the case after Pete’s sister Tina tells them she thinks her brother is in trouble. Mom and dad are on the brink of divorce, dad’s life having radically changed when he was a victim of the “Mercedes Killer” a few years ago.Įnter King’s new Scooby Gang, introduced in “Mr. While Bellamy’s doing time, a young boy named Pete Saubers, who is also in love with the work of the late Rothstein, finds those notebooks and figures out they could secure his family’s fortune.
It’s not a spoiler to say Bellamy kills Rothstein (it happens on page 14), steals his unpublished notebooks and dreams about the words inside them during his 35 locked-up years.
“Finders Keepers” (Scribner) gives us a con named Morris Bellamy whose obsession with the work of a writer named John Rothstein goes way too far. Who can forget Annie Wilkes in “Misery,” chopping off novelist Paul Sheldon’s foot with an ax? The power of books over readers is a frequent theme in the work of Stephen King.
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