After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. ![]() In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries. ![]() Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. ![]() Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. “Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.” - BILL HODGES Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
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