"Stephen King's Bill Hodges Trilogy has proved to be a welcome change of pace for the best-selling Maine author... The wintery, blood-soaked climax of the novel provides a fitting resolution not only to the action at hand but to the trilogy as a whole. King will always be best known for his tales of supernatural horror, but it's great fun to watch him experiment with form, genre and subject matter. He has more than his fair share of laurels, but he never seems to rest on them. Here's hoping King can maintain the creative momentum of the Bill Hodges Trilogy as he heads into the next uncharted literary territory."--Michael Berry, The Portland Press Herald
"As in
Misery and
TheShining, King swan dives into the looniness lurking at both ends of thewriter-reader transaction...the narrative hums and roars along like ahigh-performance vehicle...a rip-snortingentertainment; one that also works as a sneaky-smart satire of literarycriticism and how even the most attentive readers can often miss the wholepoint."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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King works his customary storytelling magic, unspooling the plot threads almost as quickly as readers can turn the pages... If you're wrapping up the trilogy, enjoy.
If you're just getting started, you're in for a thrilling ride."--Rob Merrill, The Associated Press
"Outstanding... 'End of Watch' gives us King at the height of his powers. Masterfully plotted, the novel is propelled toward its page-blurring conclusion by two deadly forces: Hodges' advancing disease and Brady's relentless murderous impulse."--John Wilwol, Newsday
Praise for Finders Keepers "Stephen King's superb new stay-up-all-night thriller,
Finders Keepers, is a sly, often poignant tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel
Misery...a love letter to the joys of reading and to American literature... wonderful, scary, moving."--Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post
"The new book is so good, being at least mildly obsessed with it is understandable. The finest thing about it, however, is that the author has another story to tell before the finale of this excellent series."--USA Today
Praise for Mr. Mercedes "Classic Stephen King. Creepy, yet realistic characters that get under your skin and stay there, a compelling story that twists and turns at breakneck speed, and delightful prose that, once again, proves that one of America's greatest natural storytellers is also one of its finest writers."--Associated Press
"Think of
Mr. Mercedes as an AC/DC song: uncluttered, chugging with momentum, and a lot harder to pull off than it looks. . . . King has written a hot rod of a novel, perfect for a few summer days at the pool. Mercedes-Benz commands drivers to demand 'the best or nothing.' In pop-fiction terms, that motto still applies to Stephen King, too. With apologies to AC/DC, the highway to hell never felt so fun."--Christian Science Monitor
"A taut, suspenseful race-against-time book . . . [King is] in reliably fine form."--The New York Times
"No one can create a villain quite like King. . . . [A]ll the elements come together in a very public, potentially explosive finale (with a surprising post script). King fans may find themselves furiously turning pages long into the night."--Seattle Times
A compelling and chilling suspense novel, END OF WATCH is the final stand-alone novel in King's trilogy featuring retired detective Bill Hodges.