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Holly

Holly

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By Stephen King (2023)
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down

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Jake Perkins
Jake Perkins
5
I read the last hundred pages in one sitting in a car park rather than go inside, which is all you need to know.

King in late career writing at something close to his best. Holly Gibney has been one of my favourite Stephen King characters since Mr Mercedes and this is her book in a way the earlier appearances were not. The antagonists are genuinely unsettling in a way that feels specifically contemporary. The pacing is King's — long, patient, then suddenly very fast — and it works.

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Breathless
Reading Mood
Gripping
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