King, Stephen — Knigausa Bookstore: Russian Books

Outsider, the

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:17:12 +0000

Soon to be an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn.’If you read only one thriller this summer, make it this one’ Daily MailA horrifying crime.Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect.Except he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi.Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect have been both at the scene of the crime and in another town?

Pet Sematary — Film Tie-in (A)

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:17:12 +0000

Now a major motion picture’Sometimes…dead is better’The house looks right, feels right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old and comfortable. A place where the family can settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seem a world away from the fume-choked dangers of the city.It’s only those big trucks on the road outside which growl out unnerving threats.Behind the house there’s a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children walked in a procession with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding…’King can make the flesh creep half a world away’ — The Times’So beautifully paced that you cannot help but be pulled in’ — Guardian’The most frightening novel Stephen King has ever written’ — Publisher’s Weekly

Finders Keepers (A)

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:54:04 +0000

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iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel.2009: Pete Saubers, a boy whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes, discovers a buried trunk containing cash and Rothstein’s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.