Mr. Mercedes - BookWyrm

mass market paperback

Published April 29, 2015 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-5011-1495-3
OCLC Number:: 1140944218

(2 reviews)

The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes’s wheels Brady Hartsfield wants that rush again, but this time he’s going big, with an attack that would take down thousands—unless Hodges and two new unusual allies he picks up along the way can throw a wrench in Hartsfield’s diabolical plans.

~from back cover

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Kadomi@buecher.pnpde.social reviewed Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

The hunt for a killer

4 stars

If I look back at all the books I have read in my life, I think I can say with confidence that Stephen King is my most-read author. Some of his works make me kinda cringe a bit now, but all in all, I just love his writing. Over the years, he's been branching out into many genres, away from just being a horror writer, and Mr. Mercedes is crime fiction, not horror. Sometimes it didn't even have that feeling of a Stephen King novel.

All in all, I really enjoyed it. Bill Hodges is an overweight, retired police detective who's in his 60s and struggles to find a reason to live. In comes Mr. Mercedes, a killer he was never able to catch in his active time, who ran a Mercedes sedan into a crowd, killing many people. Mr. Mercedes is trying to taunt Hodges into committing suicide. Little …

If I look back at all the books I have read in my life, I think I can say with confidence that Stephen King is my most-read author. Some of his works make me kinda cringe a bit now, but all in all, I just love his writing. Over the years, he's been branching out into many genres, away from just being a horror writer, and Mr. Mercedes is crime fiction, not horror. Sometimes it didn't even have that feeling of a Stephen King novel.

All in all, I really enjoyed it. Bill Hodges is an overweight, retired police detective who's in his 60s and struggles to find a reason to live. In comes Mr. Mercedes, a killer he was never able to catch in his active time, who ran a Mercedes sedan into a crowd, killing many people. Mr. Mercedes is trying to taunt Hodges into committing suicide. Little does he know that this will kick Hodges back into gear, as he renews his efforts to find Mr. Mercedes.

The novel reads as a back and forth. We early on get the PoV from the killer, who is a young man with a somewhat disturbing relationship to his alcoholic mother, and get to experience how his life gets more and more out of control. It is a bit of a nailbiter at the end there.

As mentioned above, I really liked it. I liked the cast, especially the highly unlikely 'investigator' Holly, a neurotypical woman in her 40s, Hodges' young helper Jerome, etc. Looking forward to reading the two next books, plus Holly, King's most recent book.

Dabid reviewed Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Trilogía Bill Hodges, #1)

Egia esan, uste baino gehiago gustatu zait

4 stars

Aspalditik nuen liburu hau armairuan irakurri gabe, eta Stephen Kingen hurrengo liburua liburu honetako pertsonaietako bati buruzkoa dela ikusi nuenean, irakurtzen hasi nintzen. Ez da SKren formatua, baina, egia esan, thriller gisa oso ondo funtzionatzen du. Formatu horretan eroso sentitzen diren beste idazle batzuk bezain ondo. SKren idazkera nabaritzen da, batez ere kontatzeko moduan eta pertsonaien sakontasunean (nire ustez, idazle gisa dituen indarguneetako bi). Gustatzen zaizkidan SKren liburu guztietan esaten dudan bezala: liburu honen amaiera ez da txarra. 🤣

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