Finders Keepers: A Novel - The Bill Hodges Trilogy

Publisher Marketing: A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in "Mr. Mercedes." "Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he's released from prison after thirty-five years. Not since "Misery" has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. "Finders Keepers" is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life--for good, for bad, forever. Review Citations:

Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2015 pg. 70 (EAN 9781501100079, Hardcover)

Library Journal 04/15/2015 pg. 76 (EAN 9781501100079, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2015 (EAN 9781501100079, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Publishers Weekly 04/20/2015 (EAN 9781501100079, Hardcover)

Booklist 04/15/2015 pg. 28 (EAN 9781501100079, Hardcover)

Entertainment Weekly 05/15/2015 pg. 36 (EAN 9781501100079, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  King, Stephen Stephen King has written more than forty books and two hundred short stories. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker awards, and the O. Henry Award for his story "The Man in the Black Suit."