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A review by midici
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
4.0
I picked up this book and didn't put it down until I was finished.
A man in a clown mask drives a Mercedes into a crowd, killing eight people, and gets away without a trace. Months later, retired detective Bill Hodges receives a letter from the killer, taunting him for his failure in solving the crime and trying to convince him to commit suicide. The letter causes him to snap out of his depression instead, and begin investigating. What he doesn't realize is that he's on a time limit because the killer has decided to up his game. He has something big planned, something that will kill hundreds he hopes.
King does a good job of setting up reasons that the actual police don't get involved: Janey's mistrust of how they handled her sister's suicide, Bill's pride, the coincidental catch of a separate serial killer that occupies the rest of the police station. He also sets up an interesting cast of characters, because besides Bill there's his neighbour Jerome, a highschooler, and Holly, Janey's cousin who suffers from some unspecified mental problems and has a flair for computers.
Brady comes off as very disturbed. Everything about him is creepy, from his relationship to his mother, to teh murder of his little brother, to the way he vividly imagines killing everyone around him at all times. A terrifying killer and a satisfying ending.
A man in a clown mask drives a Mercedes into a crowd, killing eight people, and gets away without a trace. Months later, retired detective Bill Hodges receives a letter from the killer, taunting him for his failure in solving the crime and trying to convince him to commit suicide. The letter causes him to snap out of his depression instead, and begin investigating. What he doesn't realize is that he's on a time limit because the killer has decided to up his game. He has something big planned, something that will kill hundreds he hopes.
King does a good job of setting up reasons that the actual police don't get involved: Janey's mistrust of how they handled her sister's suicide, Bill's pride, the coincidental catch of a separate serial killer that occupies the rest of the police station. He also sets up an interesting cast of characters, because besides Bill there's his neighbour Jerome, a highschooler, and Holly, Janey's cousin who suffers from some unspecified mental problems and has a flair for computers.
Brady comes off as very disturbed. Everything about him is creepy, from his relationship to his mother, to teh murder of his little brother, to the way he vividly imagines killing everyone around him at all times. A terrifying killer and a satisfying ending.