3.26k reviews for:

Achados e Perdidos

Stephen King

3.95 AVERAGE

divxalex's review against another edition

3.0

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Decent King's work.


Others wrote:

The second standalone novel in Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch) - and the basis of the third season of Mr Mercedes, an AT&T Audience Original Series (10 September 2019).

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iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel.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.

its_tree_time_baby's review against another edition

3.5

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mzabza's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

suzanjackson's review against another edition

4.0

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The second book in the Mr. Mercedes trilogy, with characters Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson. It begins in 1979 with the murder of a famous reclusive author. As with all of King's novels, it was super suspenseful and compelling and kept me up much too late each night reading! Read my full review at:

https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2021/01/december-book-reviews.html

chicagogoeswest's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

travellingcari's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Unlike Mr. Mercedes, I could not put this one down and read it in two sittings. The characters had grown on me, and I liked what they were doing with the agency. The story of the Saubers, tying back both to the original Misery-esque crime and the crime in Mr. Mercedes was great parallel.

joyreads_alot's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

michael_beatty249's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

zeddredd99's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

homodachi's review against another edition

3.0

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I like the way the books in this series are structured: you see all the pieces, everyone’s bad decisions, and watch with dread as they slow-motion crash into each other.

Minus one star for fleeting, flinch-inducing gore. Those descriptions are short and infrequent, though.