TCCDM Dig & Flip: Holly - Stephen King (2023)
Holly
by Stephen King
(2023)
Hardcover, 449 pages
NO SPOILERS:
If you are familiar with Stephen King's "Bill Hodges Trilogy" beginning with Mr. Mercedes then you have already met Holly. In this novel, our protagonist has been enjoying the detective business and now runs a small office that tackles smaller cases like missing pets, runaways, etc. during the masking days of Covid. She is a sharp-cookie, but a socially self-conscious woman with OCD and a tiny circle of friends. Holly is a neat character and easy to root for.
In this Stephen King thriller, Holly is hired to discover what happened to a mother's college-age daughter. The missing person case leads to a creepy stomach-churning thriller that travels easily on both sides of the Stephen King fence. The author drives Holly's detective skills in a believable investigative manner, playing fair with all the clues. Thankfully, no bogus magic bullet solutions show up here.
King proves once again that creepy weird supernatural ideas that he likes to play around with are often no match for the creepy horrible stuff simply inflicted via human discourse. Holly is a fun read filled with page-turning uncertainties and anxiety. And word is, Stephen King has another Holly conundrum in the works coming early spring. By the way...Holly is very much a stand-alone hardback novel. One need not have read the trilogy to enjoy this epistle. But if you're a Stephen King fan...I strongly recommend it.
"Down In The Park" - Gary Numan / "Replicas" (1979)
Good stuff.
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