11-09-2023, 09:08 AM
Holly by Stephen King
Holly Gibney was a supporting player in the book Mr. Mercedes and has now come to the point where she carries the book by herself. Holly runs the Finders Keepers detective agency and is tasked to find a missing young woman who the cops thinks might have run away. But right from the get go we know that's not the case, because King tells what happened to her right up front in a parallel story line. The pleasure in the book is reading about Holly and her circle of friends and what they go through in the search. It's not a horror story but the does support the truism the real monsters are the people all around us. In these detective stories, King scratches his Ed McBain itch. He also gets to opine about the world around us. The book is set during the Covid pandemic just about the time people are starting to get vaccinated. Some of the characters are pro-vax and some are anti-vax. He also gets to make references to his other books. I counted three but there might have been more.
I like King's non-horror stories more at this point. There is something about the horror stories that just go off the rails after a while.
Holly Gibney was a supporting player in the book Mr. Mercedes and has now come to the point where she carries the book by herself. Holly runs the Finders Keepers detective agency and is tasked to find a missing young woman who the cops thinks might have run away. But right from the get go we know that's not the case, because King tells what happened to her right up front in a parallel story line. The pleasure in the book is reading about Holly and her circle of friends and what they go through in the search. It's not a horror story but the does support the truism the real monsters are the people all around us. In these detective stories, King scratches his Ed McBain itch. He also gets to opine about the world around us. The book is set during the Covid pandemic just about the time people are starting to get vaccinated. Some of the characters are pro-vax and some are anti-vax. He also gets to make references to his other books. I counted three but there might have been more.
I like King's non-horror stories more at this point. There is something about the horror stories that just go off the rails after a while.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm