In the words of Michael Corleone, Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! This has got to be the longest haul of Stephen King that I've dIn the words of Michael Corleone, Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! This has got to be the longest haul of Stephen King that I've done, starting all the way at the beginning with Mr. Mercedes and binge reading my way through getting in preparation for Holly, and I did it just in time for its release!
Holly Gibney is brought into her first standalone (2nd if you include
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. She is contacted by Penny Dahl, a worried mother who's daughter has vanished without a trace, and wants to hire Holly to find her and bring her home. At first Holly is reluctant to accept, with the Finders Keepers detective agency semi-closed, with the recent passing of Holly's mother from Covid, Pete (Holly's partner) is sick with Covid, and Holly is practically on leave.
But there is something in the mother's voice that Holly just can't say no. For this case Holly is on her own, with Jerome Robinson in New York promoting his new book. Holly attempts to pick up the trail of Penny's missing daughter, soon discovering that over the past 5 years, more people have gone missing, and Holly begins to wonder if they're all connected.
Enter Professors Rodney and Emily Harris, semi-retried, well known and respected biologists, who live here blocks from where Bonnie Dahl was last seen. To the public the Harrises seem like a normally, happily long-time married couple, but to someone in Holly's shoes and profession, looks can be deceiving. The Harrises over the years have been keeping a deep dark secret, and they are not who they seem to be!
I'm very amazed at how far Holly has come along and how much her character has developed since her introduction in Mr. Mercedes. I did see Stephen King recently in an interview promoting Holly, and he said that she was just supposed to be a one time character but the readers and Stephen King himself (and I quote) stole his heart! I'm so glad that SK has decided to continue on with her character, she may be without a doubt my new favorite character created by SK, and I hope we haven't seen the last of her! and I never thought I'd say this, but I found it neat that King decided to include Covid in one of his novels as a subplot, where I see many people thought of the pandemic as something in a SK Story. Long live Holly Gibney!!
Linwood Barclay returns to the storyline that made him the big seller he is today in No Safe House.
The story reintroduces us to the Archer family, takLinwood Barclay returns to the storyline that made him the big seller he is today in No Safe House.
The story reintroduces us to the Archer family, taking place 7 years after
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. The story is told through the eyes of Terry Archer, husband to Cynthia and father to Grace. The family is still struggling to move on with their lives after the horrific events in the previous book, Terry and Cynthia are separated indefinitely after several heated arguments.
One night Grace is out with her delinquent boyfriend, who decides to break into a strange house to steal the owners car, but when the unthinkable happens, Terry and his family must once again face deadlly consequences, they find themselves drawn into a night of terror, and Terry reluctantly teams up with notorious small-time crook Vince Fleming, whom the family has a history with, because Terry knows may be a situation he can't help his family out of on his own, and he may have to resort to extreme measures.
Hard to keep up with at time because it kept jumping back and forth between characters, and certain ones you weren't sure how they fit into the story, but I stuck with it and it all made sense towards the end. Nowhere near as good as awesome as
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, but an exceptional follow-up. You don't necessarily have to read the first book before reading No Safe House, but I would for the sake of the characters and their story arcs....more
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