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Finders Keepers: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Trilogy Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Stephen King (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 2 of 3: The Bill Hodges Trilogy

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The second book in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch)—now an AT&T Audience Original Series!

“Stephen King’s superb stay-up-all-night thriller is a sly tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel Misery” (The Washington Post)—the #1 New York Times bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in Mr. Mercedes.

“Wake up, genius.” So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn’t released anything since. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein’s unpublished work...including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris hides everything away—the money and the manuscripts no one but Gold ever saw—before being locked up for another horrific crime. But upon Morris’s release thirty-five years later, he’s about to discover that teenager Pete Saubers has already found the stolen treasure—and no one but former police detective Bill Hodges, along with his trusted associates Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, stands in the way of his vengeance...

Not since Misery has Stephen King played with the notion of a reader and murderous obsession, filled with “nail biting suspense that’s the hallmark of [his] best work” (Publishers Weekly).

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“King’s many, many fans will want this, especially those who enjoyed Misery, but the second volume in King’s projected trilogy will appeal to anyone who enjoys suspense and action, or anyone who finds enlightenment in reading about the internal struggle between right and wrong. It’s not necessary to have read the previous book to enjoy this one.” ― Library Journal

“A trimmer-than-usual King, but that doesn't mean he skimps on the suspense and spine-tingling chills.” ― People Magazine

“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

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

“King excels in his disturbing portrait of Brady, a genuine monster in ordinary human form who gives new meaning to the phrase‘the banality of evil.” ― Publisher's Weekly

“Hartfield is sensitive, sympathetic and one of King’s most realistic characters. He is a lot like Norman Bates from Psycho, in the worst ways imaginable.You can add Hartfield to the list of great King villains, alongside the shape-shifting monster Pennywise from It and the hypnotic vampire Kurt Barlow from Salem’s Lot.” ― Boston Herald

“King may have left out the supernatural in Mr. Mercedes, but his gifts for creating thoroughly believable characters and thrumming suspense are in full play. He keeps raising the stakes and ratcheting up the violence, and just when you think everything is settled there's one spine-icing little turn on the very last page.” ― Tampa Bay Times

"A taut, calibrated thriller . . . The majority of the book is merciless and unforgiving, and the scariest thing about it is how plausible the whole scenario is." ― Miami Herald

“An oh-so-dark mystery that never shuts the door on love, loss and, possibly, redemption.” ― Cleveland Plain Dealer

“A fast-paced cat-and-mouse game between Hodges, the motley group of unlikely heroes that he assembles, and the Mercedes Killer.” ― Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"The new book is sogood, being at least mildly obsessed with it is understandable. The finest thing about it, however, is thatthe author has another story to tell before the finale of this excellent series.” ― USA Today

“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

"On one level, Mr. Mercedes is an expertly crafted example of the classic race-against-the-clock thriller. On another, it is a novel of depth and character enriched throughout by the grace notes King provides in such seemingly effortless profusion. It is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses." ― Washington Post

“Nicely dark, never predictable and altogether entertaining.” ― Kirkus

“King deftly takes elements of hard-boiled mysteries and puts a fresh spin on them.” ― USA Today

“A taut, suspenseful race-against-time book . . . [King is] in reliably fine form.” ― The New York Times

“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

“A showdown between good and evil that characterizes the best of King's work, regardless of genre.” ― Los Angeles Times

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

“[A] taut thriller about the thin line separating fandom from fanaticism…Bellamy is one of King’s creepiest creations—a literate and intelligent character whom any passionate reader will both identify with and be repelled by. His relentless pursuit of a treasure that his twisted thinking has determined is rightfully his generates the nail biting suspense that’s the hallmark of King’s best work. A sharp closing twist suggests Hodges will be back.” ― Publishers Weekly

“The most straight-up mystery-thriller of [King’s] career…Pretty darn fresh.” ― Booklist

“King creates such vivid characters—people you can picture yourself drinking a beer with or inviting over for lunch. So when he puts them in great peril, and that includes Jerome’s family and pet dog and the Mercedes’ owner’s family, it’s a race against time . . .” ― St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00P42WROG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner; Reissue edition (June 2 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4031 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 558 pages

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Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, MR MERCEDES, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both MR MERCEDES and END OF WATCH received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively.

King co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game and It.

King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.

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Brad McDermott

Great read

Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2024

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All I will say is WOW! I don’t want to write a long review because I’ll spoil things and I hate that so much. So if you liked Mr. Mercedes you’ll double love this one. I can’t wait to read End Of Watch!

Reviewed in Canada on March 25, 2024

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I really love this trilogy, it has everything in it, drama, excitement and thrills, I like how the characters are developing. Its like visiting old friends.

Reviewed in Canada on February 17, 2024

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I enjoyed this from start to finish. Another great read from such an amazing author! I am now onto the next book and plan to read all things Holly Gibney!

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Myrna Robert

Great Continuation of Series

Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2023

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Really enjoyed this second book in the series that almost could be read stand alone. Enjoy Bill Hodges and Holly as people it feels like I know. Another great King read!

Reviewed in Canada on October 17, 2022

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This one didn't really do it for me. I didn't think Hodges and Holly added anything to the story, and I enjoyed it much better in the first half when it centered around Pete and Morrie.

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A. Volk

The Detective Hodges Series Continues Admirably

Reviewed in Canada on June 6, 2015

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Finders Keepers is the second in the detective Hodges series and is almost certainly, at least in part, a blank-you to some of King's fans who have complained about his treatment of characters. Probably also a reflection of King's own thoughts along those lines. The main villain's motives are to find his favorite author (whom he is obsessed with) and make him pay for ending the series the way he did. That was back in the late 1970s, and then the book jumps forward to the chief protagonist, Peter. A teenage boy who ends up falling in love with the same book and characters, as well as the loot from the heist. King is at his best when he's talking about the love and joy of reading. He's clearly as big a fan of reading as he is of writing (if not more so). Naturally, it's also a topic that his readers will identify with. But this book's writing is not without a few flaws.

First, the psychology of the main villain is hard to get. He starts off as a psychopath, but one with a really deep interest in literature. His past, while discussed in moderate depth, never quite fit with his ultimate development. Neither his childhood or his early-mid adulthood really justify the person he ends up becoming. It just didn't quite fit for me- part psychopath, part lunatic, part alcoholic, part genius. It felt forced together unlike say Annie Wilkes. Second, the book jams in some pretty serious coincidences. I get that coincidence is an important part of almost any suspense story. But so many things drop into place at just the right time in just the right way that it took away from the credibility of the plot. In this sense, I felt Mr. Mercedes was more credible. Finally, the ending of the book is really tacked on as a sequel. I'm not going to argue about the plausibility of that ending, but wonder why it was crudely jammed on to the end of this book. I think instead it would have made an excellent starting chapter of the inevitable third book. It's not like Stephen King needs to worry about advertising a new book!

So then why did I give this book four stars? Well, because I liked it. I definitely didn't love it, but the writing was generally compelling and King's imagery and handling of the human condition is once more top-notch. In fact, I felt King was at his best when he was at his most mundane in this book. Peter's relatively tame life was much more interesting to read about the Morris' (the villain). And even for Morris, it's when he's doing something relatively ordinary (like coming up with some basic poetry) that rang the most true to me. The plot moves along at a good pace and I was able to get through the book in a couple of nights without ever feeling like I was forcing myself. So that's my final test of whether or not I can recommend a book, meaning I can and do recommend Finders Keepers. It's an interesting thriller that will probably have the reader thinking about their own literary idols and what they'd do to get more of them, or better yet, just what they want from their writing.

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petra a

loved it

Reviewed in Canada on December 26, 2023

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Enjoyed it more than the first, and so i know I’ll read the third and then after that his new one, Holly. Good character development between Hodges, Holly and Tyrone without being too campy. Loved the references to some literary classics and some that are fictional, to blend the two worlds and give the plot some relevance. It sets up well for the third in the series without too much foreshadowing!

Reviewed in Canada on October 16, 2023

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As expected, Stephen didnt disappoint and has produced another page turner

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Derek Valenti

Good book!

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2023

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Good story line, about a man Morris who is absolutely obsessed with John Rothstein novels- especially his Jimmy Gold trilogy!! But Morris absolutely HATES the way he ended the trilogy…. With Jimmy selling out!

This author has since retired and lives with his wife, writing in his journals.. But in these journals are actually sequels to this trilogy, unpublished and for HIS eyes only! What would have been books 4 and 5 of the series, along with about $20,000 cash is stolen from Mr. Rothstein in a home burglary, which turns deadly for him. Who killed him? you guessed it, Morris! So now he has his money, but that $20,000 is nothing compared to what these hidden journals are worth (to the right man willing to buy them on the black market). A friend of his, Andy, tells him that when things die down after this man’s death, then he surely can find someone to purchase these gems!! Only problem is, Morris is now going away for many years, due to convicted rape! So now he must hide his trunk full of journals (and cash ) under a near dead tree behind his old house!
Hoping that it’s still there when he gets out…

Enter Peter Saubers, teenager in high school, main character of the story. He moves into Morrises old house, and guess what he stumbled upon? You guessed it, The trunk! And he has actually heard of Rothstein, is a huge fan of his work, and happened to love the trilogy! But when he reads these last 2 books, he’s even more amazed ! He now realizes what literal GOLD he has on his hands!
Also during all of this his parents are having financial (even some marital) problems, and so Pete starts anonymously sending random letters to his house addressed to his father, with mystery money in it, and does so for almost 2 years… until, one day…… it runs out and he sends his last envelope!
Well it certainly did help his parents get back on their feet, and almost certainly saved their marriage! Which is good, but what kind of sucks, is now Morris is out of prison, and will be looking for all his things, but Peter doesn’t know this…… yet..

Now he is looking for more money (not so much for his parents now) but for his younger sister he wants to be able to help put her into this nice school, but it’s a bit expensive. So he decides to do the unthinkable- part with some of his journals- and he KNOWS what he has, could potentially be looking at a million dollars!

So he goes to the shadiest Rare Books Dealer in town, Andy Halliday! (Yep, Morrises old pal from right after the heist, who most certainly knows people who can afford so buy these VERY RARE finds). Peter knows he cannot go to just anyone- most people who knows what he has is Stolen property from a murder case, and will think Peter had something to do with it! So no police! So it’s Andy, or nobody!

Except Andy was wandering where these journals went after Morris went into prison, and now he knows where they are! He attempts to blackmail Pete into either lowballing him EXTREMELY, or getting the police on the phone!

But before he can continue with his plan, Morris comes in to save the day- and KILL Andy. Hey, what are friends for, right? So now all Morris has to do is rid himself of Peter, but not a second before he knows where these journals are ! Will he eventually come back into possession of these last 2 Jimmy Gold Novels? Or will he die trying?

Tune in next week, for the conclusion of :
FINDERS KEEPERS!

…he dies…. Peter burns the books while Morris stands aflame burning together with his one true love: Jimmy Gold at last !

Great storyline, a bit of a jump from the Brady Hartsfield from the First book, but Brady certainly doesn’t disappoint in the third!
9.5/10 stars for me!

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James

King’s the master storyteller for a reason!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2024

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I may be too generous when it comes to Stephen King, but you know what you are getting when you pick up his work. A story, well told, with glimpses of humanities best and worst qualities, Finders Keepers is another of those.

Well worth a read and a great second step for the Detective Bill Hodges.

A.

Very quick delivery

Reviewed in the Netherlands on January 29, 2024

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Book is brand new, looks great

Ravic

worth reading

Reviewed in Germany on September 2, 2023

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Not as thrilling as the first book, but absolutely worth reading and highly entertaining. I’m looking forward to End of watch

Whoa Stop

très bon polar - du Stephen King mais pas dans son genre habituel.

Reviewed in France on February 15, 2022

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fait partie d'une très bonne mini-série de 3 livres, qui peuvent se lire séparément. Mais c'est toujours mieux dans l'ordre : mr Mercedes, finders keepers, End of Watch.

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