Brady is a millenial who has 2 lower-rung jobs and lives with his mother. We learn who the killer is almost immediately. (In 2009? Was the internet really so unknown back then?) He refuses to ask his own police department for help, (why?) and adopts a neighboring teen handyman, Jerome, who is good with computers, as his “cop buddy.” Jerome’s tech ability is fortuitous, as the killer wants to communicate in a chat room, and Bill is strangely lacking in tech skills. Hey, I know! What if a killer – a serial killer – taunts him about the case he never solved: the Mercedes Killer? (The killer had plowed the car into a line of job-seekers, 2 of whom we got to know briefly.) Bill immediately cheers up with this challenge and goes to work on figuring out this nutcase. There is a teeny tiny yellow smiley sticker on it, which I mention later! An umbrella only features in the first scene, so this object is not related to the book much, but still, makes a good graphic. He’s a little depressed - maybe a lot depressed - living alone, job over, ex-wife gone, only TV left. Bill Hodges, recently retired police detective, lives in some town in the midwest. For decades, I have been depending on Stephen King to take away the pain of living. Mercedes ~ Book Review by Stephen KingĢ014, Hardback - straight Mystery!, serial killer
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