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Five "Mercedes Manic" Stars
This was a great crime thriller!
A small taste of what lies within:
A crazy nut named Brady kills and maims a bunch of people at a job fair when he runs over them with a Mercedes dubbing him the "Mercedes Killer" and he ends up not getting caught for his crime. A year later, the detective that was on the case is now retired (Bill Hodges) and he receives a suspicious letter in the mail from none other than the Mercedes Killer himself letting it be known to Bill that he was the one that committed the crime and that he will never be caught. He also lets Bill know that he has plans for another killing but is planning on wiping out more people. Bill ends up teaming up with some friends to track the Mercedes Killer down.
That is about all I can give on a small taste as you will need to read my full review on Goodreads.
Thoughts:
There are no creepy spooks within this book but there is quite a bit of mystery and suspense throughout the book as the Master of Horror branched out into the crime thriller genre, but you still have the King writing style that flows along and as always with King you will find plenty of detail of everything wrapped around the characters.
The first half of the book was kind of a slow burn as there was plenty of world building with story background and character creation, but the last half of the book took off into a thriller status as more things started happening within the story. Another great book by King and since this is the first book in a trilogy I will be continuing on at some point with reading the next book.
For my full review of the book, Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy), by author, Stephen King, please see my review from Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2885230818
Attached is the author, Stephen King, profile page from Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3389.Stephen_King
Attached is the author, Stephen King, profile page from Amazon:
King without the spooks, interesting. Is this a pedo book or an adults only killer?
ReplyDeleteHe is an everything killer - it doesn't matter who he wants to kill he just wants to see people dead.
DeleteYeah King becomes a mulit-genre writer as he branches outside of the horror realm. Same writing style just a different genre. :)
Interesting. I want to read this before I try the show/movies.
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