Jerome, a smart high-schooler with his sights set on Harvard, had a secondary ‘persona’ where he often changed his vernacular. Holly is in her forties, but it was hard to picture her that way because of her child-like voice. They were a lot more interesting and created more depth in the cast and the character interactions because of their idiosyncrasies and backgrounds. He is no Scully and Hitchcock, but I kinda of pictured him that way and felt somewhat surprised when he did something right.

ha), but I did appreciate that even though he was the stereotypical overweight police officer, he did still have some investigative skills. I didn’t particularly feel drawn to Bill Hodge’s character because he seemed a bit flat (not physically. Mercedes before he can act on his urge to kill more people. To the police’s dismay, he got away and left few traces to follow up on.īill, with the help of his lawn-boy, Jerome, and eventually the help of a mentally unstable but very intelligent woman with some social tics named Holly, goes on a mission to nail the elusive Mr. He killed 8 people (including a mother and baby) and injured many others.

The book opens with the scene of the Mercedes Killer running a stolen vehicle- a Mercedes Benz obvs- into crowds of people waiting in line for a job fair. When he receives a mysterious note from the supposed Mercedes Killer- a case he never solved- he is all too eager to spend his free time investigating. The basic premise of this thriller is that retired detective, Bill Hodges, is not, after 6 months in, handling his retirement well.

I was also notified that this series was made into a TV series but that has a profanity rating of ‘severe’ so I also won’t be able to continue the series in that way. Mercedes, such a stand-up guy, also has a creepy incestuous-esque relationship with his mother that isn’t overly descriptive but even a mild description is disturbing.įor these content reasons I don’t think I’ll be finishing the series. Mercedes character to portray another side of his evilness, but I still don’t like having to read it).Īnother note on the content: Mr. I had a physical copy and thus did not count, but I would say it’s easily over a hundred f- and s-words, some c-words, and not to mention the too-frequent use of the n-word (this was used only by the Mr. While I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of gore, I was equally disappointed in the abundance of profanity. It was not gruesome, though several people die. True to many other readers’ comments, this is different from his MO in that it was more thriller than horror. I’m not a big horror fan so I was hesitant to read it, but it’s been sitting on my shelf for years so to celebrate Stephen King’s birthday on September 21, I decided to give it a shot. This was my very first Stephen King book.

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