Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch a trilogy of fabulous crime novels, but again written in his typically dark and engaging style, King creates tension filled moments that spill from the pages that turn each of these into crime fiction page turners of the highest calibre – if you haven’t read them yet I’d highly advise you to do so. If crime writing can remain this good, it may have converted a new reader.Īs mentioned above King has previously penned Mr. A preference that Stephen King has now shoved down my throat so far that I won’t be sitting comfortably for a while, convincing me that there might possibly be some space in my reading for crime…but a particular kind of crime, the King kind! King has been able to seamlessly spliced together an unrelenting tale of suspense whilst incorporating the darker and many subtle aspects of horror and in doing so has almost created his own sub genre.

I don’t really like crime books myself, I find them quite boring in fact, this is quite a brash statement for a reviewer and a bibliophile, but it’s my personal preference. DNA evidence and fingerprints confirm the crime was committed by this well-loved family man….Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy but there is one rock-hard fact, as unassailable as gravity: a man cannot be in two places at the same time. When an eleven-year-old boy is found murdered in a town park, reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town’s popular Little League coach, Terry Maitland, as the culprit. It’s a crime book, but in the hands of Stephen King it’s so much more…all bets are off!

Leaving it lifeless on the floor, that’s where King sets about consuming its remains and crafting something beautiful and in doing so claiming the crime / thriller genre as his own, much like what he has done with the horror genre. Wrapping his bony hands around it and choking the life out of it, suffocating the genre, driving out the last remnants of air with his white knuckled choke hold. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch. The master of horror has turned his hand masterfully to the crime writing genre most recently in Mr. Well what can be said about Stephen King that hasn’t already been said? Not a lot really, an author of over 50 books all of which are bestsellers.

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