Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Stephen King's scary new novel published worldwide today

Finder’s Keepers
Stephen King
Hachette New Zealand, 02 June 2015 TPB $37.99 RRP/EB $19.99
Today is worldwide publication day.

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, a Salinger-like icon 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 Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe, finding a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.

Morris hides 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 upon his release from prison after thirty-five years. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life - for good, for bad, forever.

I have to say that I read this in seveal long sittings and for the last hundred pages or so I was on the edge of my seat. Typical King scary stuff ! Don't read it alone at night is my advice.

About The Author:
Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than fifty books. His novels include Carrie, The Shining and Revival
His novel Under the Dome is now a major TV series. His novel 11.22.63 won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller and many of his books have been turned into celebrated films including Misery, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.

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