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Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)

Stephen King

Start date: January 31, 2015

Finish date: February 2, 2015

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Oct 26, 2015 Ellen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio-book, thriller

This was a great audiobook. It made me want to stay in my car to listen to just one more chapter every day. What a great storyteller King is! Not a bit of horror in this one, just an edge-of-your seat thriller with great characters and a story that keeps going until the very end. I could recommend this one to some older teens looking for a page-turner.

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Feb 07, 2018 Christine H rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was really good, and greatly enhanced by the reading by Will Patton. This is such an effective thriller, I feel like recommending some Xanax along with it. As usual, King is so good at crafting the villain, it adds even more tension. Seeing things through Mr. Mercedes's eyes as well as Hodges (and occasionally from other points of view) creates both engagement and anxiety.

There were a couple times when Hodges drove me insane with his foolishness. I'd say the biggest hurdle with this story i ...more

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May 21, 2019 Gina rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery

Here is what I knew about Mr. Mercedes before I read it - it is the first book in a trilogy. I expected King horror, not classic noir. But this mystery didn’t disappoint, just surprised. Bill Hodges is a recently retired detective, Brady Hartsfield is the psychopathic killer. Brady is the so-called Mercedes killer, (an unsolved crime that Hodges left behind with retirement), who begins to taunt Hodges. Not a whodunit, but a what will he do next.

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Jan 14, 2019 Susan rated it really liked it

Really liked this tension filled murder mystery. I listened to the audio book and thought the narration was good. Stephen King is a terrific writer and his character development and building of plot layers is still spot on.

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