So begins Stephen’s megasuspenseful story about a vengeful reader. Mercedes, winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen introduced in Mr. Mercedes is Stephen’s first “hard-boiled detective tale.” It will transport you into a vibrant and dangerous world filled with gritty characters living on the bleeding edge of reason.Ī masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far - a book about the power of storytelling from a master storyteller. When a disturbing letter from the Mercedes Killer arrives at his door, Hodges soon finds himself uncontrollably drawn into a cat-n-mouse pursuit with stakes beyond comprehension. Now retired, Hodges has lost his way in boredom and depression craving the thrills of taking down the region’s most notorious criminals. Until now.ĭetective Bill Hodges is a battle-hardened and streetwise crime fighter originally assigned to the Mercedes killings.

The killer escapes into the early-spring fog never to be seen from again. Without warning, a merciless driver plows through the crowd in a roaring Mercedes. In the gloomy pre-dawn hours of a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of unemployed hopefuls are lined up for a job fair. For Hodges - and the city - the clock is ticking in unexpected ways.Both a stand-alone novel and the final episode in the Hodges trilogy, End of Watch is a tense read which takes the series into a powerful new dimension. Then he plans to initiate a suicide epidemic. Now, the technological genius has created a hypnotic electronic fishing game which compels users to commit suicide, and he is determined to target the three people who put him in hospital - Hodges and his sidekicks Holly and Jerome. But all is not what it seems: Brady is able to influence both his physician and the hospital librarian to commit crimes in the outside world. Foiled in his attempt to commit a second mass murder, Hartsfield is confined to a hospital brain injury unit in a seemingly unresponsive state. ORDER NOW!Įnd of Watch is a compelling and chilling suspense novel which sees retired detective Bill Hodges back on the trail of his nemesis Brady Hartsfield, the criminal the press called The Mercedes Killer.

End of Watch by Stephen King