Finders Keepers (A)

A riveting crime thriller about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes too far, featuring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in MR MERCEDES.Not since Misery has King written with such visceral power about a reader with such a dangerous obsession.1978: Morris Bellamy is a reader so obsessed by America’s iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel.2009: Pete Saubers, a boy whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes, discovers a buried trunk containing cash and Rothstein’s notebooks.2014: After thirty-five years in prison, Morris is up for parole. And he’s hell-bent on recovering his treasure.Now it’s up to retired detective Bill Hodges — running an investigative company called ‘Finders Keepers’ — to rescue Pete from an ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris…Finders Keepers is spectacular suspense, and it is King writing about how literature shapes a life for good, for bad, for ever.