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The end of a horror trilogy, a girl on a train, a
paraplegic detective and a guide to live life to the
fullest feature in this month’s book selections.
End of Watch
Author: Stephen King
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The
spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that
beganwithMr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) andFinders Keep-
ers. In End of Watch, the diabolical “Mercedes Killer” drives his enemies
to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don’t figure out a way to
stop him, they will be victims themselves.
In Room217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something
evil has awakened. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Mas-
sacre, where eight peoplewere killed andmanymorewere badly injured,
has been in the clinic for five years in a vegetative state.
Acomplete recoveryseemsunlikely, but behind thedrool andstare, Brady
is awake, and inpossessionof deadlynewpowers that allowhimtowreak
unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.
Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of Mr. Mercedes
and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agencywith his partner,
Holly Gibney - the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield’s head
that put him on the brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a
suicide scenewith ties to theMercedesMassacre, they find themselves
pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at
risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friends, Jerome and Barbara
Robinson. Hartsfield is back, planning revenge not just onHodges and his
friends, but on an entire city.
In End of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a sublimely
terrifying conclusion, combining the detective fiction of Mr. Mercedes
and Finders Keepers with heart-pounding supernatural suspense. No
one does it better than King.
Rachel
catches the same commuter train every morning. She
knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row
of back gardens. She has even started to feel like she knows the
people who live in one of the houses. ‘Jess and Jason’, she calls
them. Their life – as she sees it – is perfect. If only Rachel could
be that happy.
And then she sees something shocking. Now everything has
changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives
she has only watched from afar ...
Girl on the Train
Author: Paula Hawkins