Serial killers usually have types. They target victims with similar characteristics, which makes their crimes difficult to hide. That doesn’t happen in Stephen King’s chilling new novel, Holly, which contains two of the most unusual perpetrators to appear in recent crime fiction.
Their victims include a novelist, a teenage skateboarder and a caretaker at a local college, but no one connects the disappearances until King’s private detective, Holly Gibney, takes on the case of a missing librarian.
The woman’s mother is at her wits’ end and Holly agrees to investigate, even though her partner is sick with Covid and her own mother has just died. The novel is set in a Midwestern town at the height of the pandemic and Charlotte Gibney was a
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