Finders Keepers — Stephen King

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 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s iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel 2009 Pete Saubers a boy whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes discovers a buried trunk containing cash and Rothstein s notebooks 2014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 Not since Misery has King written with such visceral power about a reader with such a dangerous obsession Finders Keepers is spectacular suspense and it is King writing about how literature shapes a life for good for bad for ever