Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King437 pages
Stephen King is the known master of horror but this new book is more of a suspense thriller than horror. It is still a good read and some people will welcome the lack of supernatural horror.
The book opens with people waiting in line at a job fair in the early morning. Don't get too attached to anyone yet because they are about to be run over by a Mercedes.
We then cut to Bill Hodges, a retired detective who worked on the Mercedes killings. Retirement is not all it promised, just a lot of day time TV and bad food. Hodges is thinking about packing it all in when he receives a letter from the Mercedes Killer, bragging about how he got away with the crime. Bill's interest is caught and soon he is investigating the letter and crime with the help of his young friend Jerome. It soon becomes apparent that the killer is planning something big which will result in mass casualties of Hodges and his crew don't stop it.
Hm, this sounds like one I could get into. I've been interested in reading a King book for a while now, but so much of his supernatural stuff sounds so cheesy in the synopsis... I mean, I'm sure a lot of it is way more suspenseful and terrifying in the actual story, but they sound really goofy in a two-paragraph blurb.
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