The Bill Hodges Trilogy Stephen King 3 Books Collection Set

Mr Mercedes

Described as 'the best thriller of the year' Sunday Express; the No. 1 bestseller introduces retired cop Bill Hodges in a race against time to apprehend a killer A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring Bill Hodges; a retired cop who is tormented by 'the Mercedes massacre'; a case he never solved. Brady Hartsfield; perpetrator of that notorious crime; has sent Hodges a taunting letter. Now he's preparing to kill again Each starts to close in on the other in a mega-stakes race against time.

Finders Keepers

A riveting crime thriller about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes too far; featuring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in MR MERCEDES. 1978: Morris Bellamy is a reader so obsessed by America's iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel. 2009: Pete Saubers; a boy whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes; discovers a buried trunk containing cash and Rothstein's notebooks. 2014: After thirty-five years in prison; Morris is up for parole. And he's hell-bent on recovering his treasure. Now it's up to retired detective Bill Hodges - running an investigative company called 'Finders Keepers' - to rescue Pete from an ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris... Not since Misery has King written with such visceral power about a reader with such a dangerous obsession. Finders Keepers is spectacular suspense; and it is King writing about how literature shapes a life for good; for bad; for ever.

End of Watch

The cell rings twice; and then his old partner in his ear . . . 'I'm at the scene of what appears to be a murder-suicide . . . Come and take a look. Bring your sidekick with you.' Bill Hodges; who now runs a two-person agency called Finders Keepers with partner Holly Gibney; is intrigued by the letter Z written with a marker at the scene of the crime. As similar cases mount up; Hodges is stunned to discover the evidence points to Brady Hartsfield; the notorious 'Mercedes Killer' who they helped to convict. It should be impossible: Brady is confined to a hospital room in a seemingly unresponsive state. But Brady Hartsfield has lethal new powers. And he's planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends; but on an entire city. The clock is ticking in unexpected ways... BRADY IS BACK. AND SO IS HODGES. The extract above is abridged from End of Watch.