When an 11 year-old boy is found in a park, hideously assaulted and murdered, all of the evidence seems to point to one of the town's most popular men, Terry Maitland. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland has coached, orders an immediate and public arrest. Maitland claims he is innocent and even has a foolproof alibi with film footage to prove he was in another city when the crime was committed. However, that isn't enough to save him.
What is clear is that Detective Anderson knows what the evidence tells him but he also is trusting the inner voice that tells him something's not right with this case. The question is, if Terry Maitland didn't commit this crime (since he clearly was somewhere else at the time), who left that evidence? King constructs a plot that slowly unfolds, drawing in different characters who discover there is a horrifying killer still out there. Just who (or what) is this person? You know I can't tell you --- but suffice to say, if you know Stephen King's work at all, you know it's going to be someone unpleasant.
I enjoyed this story, as I have most of Stephen King's books (at least the ones written after "Christine."). I did feel like the book was screamingly slow at the beginning, but I understood why King was building things slowly. There's a lot that goes into constructing the story, so it needs to be carefully built piece by piece --- and, as you discover things at the same time that the characters do.
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