![]() ![]() ![]() Rothstein is American literary royalty, a towering amalgam of Roth, Salinger and Updike.His fame comes from his Runner books, a trilogy that tips its hat to Updike’s Rabbit novels. It is the thrill of the chase that King wants to capture, rather than the nitty-gritty of crime‑scene dusting.įinders Keepers introduces us to Morris Bellamy, as big a fan of the (invented) novelist John Rothstein as you could imagine. By the time this sequel begins, Hodges and his associates have formed the titular investigation agency, which eschews criminal cases in favour of mysteries that will never involve the police. In that book, retired detective Bill Hodges chased down the mass-murdering psychopath Brady Hartsfield, leaving him in a coma. It is that same part of the vein that King draws from here, in the follow-up to Mr Mercedes, last year’s crime thriller. ![]()
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