Holly
The chilling new masterwork from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller
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4.3 • 124 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to uncover the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a Midwestern town.
Bonnie Dahl is missing . . .
Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is meant to be on leave. But she finds it impossible to turn down Bonnie's mother's desperate request for help.
Then she discovers a single earring close to the location of Bonnie's abandoned bike.
Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harbouring a savage secret in the basement of their book-lined home.
Now Holly must summon all her formidable talents if she is to uncover the truth behind multiple disappearances in her Midwestern town.
'I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her.' STEPHEN KING
'Holly Gibney has matured into one of [King's] most memorable creations - a resourceful private investigator . . . Truly chilling, it aptly demonstrates King's inimitable talent as a storyteller' - Daily Mail
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
PI Holly Gibney returns after King's 2020 novella If It Bleeds to face off against a pair of deliciously wicked predators in this lurid if somewhat plodding thriller. It's July 2021, and the Finders Keepers detective agency is on hiatus, with Holly taking time off to mourn her mother, who recently died of Covid. She's lured back to work by a series of persuasive calls from a woman named Penny Dahl, whose preteen daughter, Bonnie, disappeared three weeks earlier. As Holly begins to poke around the neighborhood where Bonnie was last seen, residents alert her to the disappearance of 11-year-old Peter "Stinky" Steinman, who vanished from the same area three years ago. Additional conversations point Holly in the direction of former college professors Rodney and Emily Harris, whose veneer of elderly innocence is complicated by rumors that they may be connected to a slew of missing persons cases stretching back nearly a decade. At first, Holly investigates the Harrises as a matter of protocol, but it doesn't take long for her to realize she's facing down a pair of cunning foes with far darker secrets than she could've imagined. The narrative can dawdle, with things starting to feel especially padded in the middle stretch, but readers are likely to forgive the delay by the time the stomach-turning dénouement comes around. This pitch-black thriller ends on a high note.
Customer Reviews
Stephen does it again
Great book & fantastic read. Holly is a great character who Stephen admits only started of as a sub character. Flying solo in her own novel, I can only hope there is Holly Part 2 & 3 to come. God willing…
America is not the world
Interesting enough book but completely ruined by King’s repeated ravings about Trump. Not everyone that reads his books lives in the US so will probably not have feelings about the guy either way….but in any case King presses that point home repeatedly…the first few times he mentions it fair enough but after the 25th…yeah we get it you don’t like Trump….you’ve made your point over and over again. I pick up fiction to escape the real world so I don’t want this rammed down my throat at every given opportunity…especially given you’re constantly harping on about a politician of a country I don’t even live in.
Amazing as Always
A compelling read that you don’t want to put down, and then it’s finished too quickly
Clever plot with twists and turns that makes you not want to stop reading
Keep writing please