There’s not a lot of questions about who done it - readers know right from the start almost that it’s a not-quite-wired-right young computer geek, Brady Hartsfield, who’s behind the carnage, but the treat is in watching the twitchy, twisty story unfold as Bill works the case while Brady taunts him at every turn. Ironically, it’s the spark that pulls Hodges back from the brink, and he’s soon thrown himself back into the case. The driver was never found, but the letter contains information that only the cops - or the killer - would know. He’s thinking of pulling the plug.Īnd then he gets a creepy, disturbing letter from someone purporting to be the perpetrator behind one of Hodges’ unsolved cases - that of a man who intentionally drove a Mercedes into a crowd of people standing in line for a job fair, killing eight people and injuring many more. His wife has left him, his daughter lives far, far away, he has no real close friends, and he’s lonelier than anyone should be. KERMIT “BILL” HODGES is the former cop, and when we first meet him in Mr. Mercedes trilogy, about a retired police detective being hounded by an elusive thrill killer, marks the author’s first truly serious and concerted foray into crime fiction. The Colorado Kid (2005) and Joyland (2013), both originally published by Hard Case Crime, and early short stories such as “The Fifth Quarter” (1972) and “Umney’s Last Case” (1983) have certainly broached the genre. Of course, horrormeister Stephen King has always incorporated elements of crime into his fiction, and he’s often sung the praises of various crime and mystery writers, with John D.
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