![]() He has since published over 50 books and has become one of the world’s most successful writers. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the fall of 1971, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() I would gladly listen to her again with either this series or another. Male and female were not an issue either. I had no issues with any of the characters’ voices, be it teens, adults or even the elderly. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to Justine Lupe before, but felt she was a great voice for Holly. So if you’re worried about Stephen King horror, this is not the horror that he is famous for. I would say it is no more violent or gruesome than Karin Slaughter books. I would list this more as a suspense series. This series isn’t horror, though parts are horrific. Neither was the fact that I hadn’t read books one and two. I will admit that I didn’t remember a lot of the details of the original Bill Hodges series, but that was not an issue here. Now that I know there are more Holly Gibney stories, I will be going back and listening to them too. I know with Stephen King you never know if the evil will be human or not, but this is human. I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but in this world, it is the humans that are monsters. This story you get both Holly’s POV, but also several other characters, including the killer(s). It doesn’t take that much time before she realizes there is more than just the one girl missing. Holly is mostly on her own with this investigation. Holly decides to take the case, even though her current partner is down with COVID himself, but he’s vaccinated, so just a mild case. The cops are not helping her and suggested Finders Keepers to her. A mother is desperate to find her missing daughter. She decides to listen to a voicemail even though Finders Keepers is closed from her family emergency. The story starts with Holly attending the virtual funeral of her mother who didn’t believe the virus was real and refused the vaccine, like so many others (my mother included, though she is still, gratefully, with us). This story takes place during COVID-19, but after the vaccine is available. I really like Stephen King and I’ve read a lot of his work, but I don’t read all of his stories as they come out. It wasn’t until I started to build this post that I realized this was a series. I quickly grabbed it when I saw the name. I probably would’ve missed this one if not for the name. ![]() The fact that she had three books out after the Bill Hodgesseries was a complete surprise to me. She’s a very quirky and easy to love character. ![]() I read that series a long time ago, and loved Holly. She worked with Bill Hodges in the series of the same name. I completely missed that there was a Holly Gibneyseries. Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. “Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.” - BILL HODGES Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio on September 5, 2023Īmazon, Audible, Libro.fm, Barnes & Noble, Apple
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