Mr Mercedes - Stephen King

King's incredible crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges and introducing Holly Gibney is now released with with a stunning new cover look.

Who is going to be the fish in this relationship, and who is going to be the fisherman?

BILL HODGES
retired cop, tormented by 'the Mercedes massacre', a case he never solved.

BRADY HARTSFIELD
perpetrator of that notorious crime, and preparing to kill again.

Now each is closing in on the other in a mega-stakes race against time from worldwide bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King.

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His crime thrillers featuring Holly Gibney include Mr Mercedes, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, and The Outsider, both of which were adapted into successful TV series, as well as Finders Keepers, End of Watch and the title story from If It Bleeds.

Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Stephen King might just be America's greatest living novelist . . . THE BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR . . . recommended to crime buffs and King fans alike.
Sunday Express

I challenge you not to read this book in one breathless sitting
Guardian

A thrilling cat-and-mouse game
Irish Mail on Sunday

Enough to say that Mr Mercedes goes out not with one bang, but several - all satisfyingly unexpected.
He's back with a novel different from, but as good as, anything he's previously done
The Times

A tightly plotted crime novel that retains that essential, instantly recognisable flavour that has distinguished King's fiction...On one level, Mr Mercedes is an expertly crafted example of the classic race-against-the-clock thriller.
On another, it is a novel of depth and character...rich, resonant, exceptionally readable
Washington Post

To be held firmly by the hand, through this tough crime thriller by the assured narrative skill of Stephen King, make the act of reading an event.
There should have been a sticker on the cover 'no book mark required'
Shots

When it comes to grabbing an audience by the throat and giving them no choice but to keep reading, King has no equal, and I challenge you not to finish this novel in one breathless sitting . . . King transcends genre, and is too warm and compassionate a writer to settle for jaggedly noir suspense.
Guardian

Expect page-turning suspense, jaw-dropping twists and all the addictive brilliance of a classic Stephen King
FHM

Nobody can do it quite like Stephen King . . . He's a storyteller; one you'd have listened to for hours, as the sun set and the gulls cried on the dockside at Piraeus
Spectator

King aficionados will be riveted from the first explosion of violence to the final, equally seismic climax
Financial Times

Hypnotic and creepy, it deserves to be ranked alongside King's masterpieces
Daily Mail

America's greatest living novelist.

The most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature.
Guardian

King's gift of storytelling is unrivalled.
His ferocious imagination is unlimited.