![]() The protagonist sees dead people, that is established near the beginning, not really a spoiler. – Largely formulaic, somewhat predictable from one scene to the next, no real twists, it just never really gets exciting. This Stephen King short novel is really just a type of ghost story and a mild horror story at that the crime part of this is just incidental. ![]() ![]() Authors such as Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, and similar belong in this genre. Hard Case Crime conjures a Noir image, with gritty detectives and police officers dealing with difficult to solve crimes, ferreting out hard cases, and putting themselves in danger with worthy criminal adversaries. – This book doesnt belong in the Hard Case Crime series. It would have been better if King had come up with a more original idea for this book, rather than import his past writing ideas. Readers of that novel will recognize it immediately. – The recycled part from his novel, It felt exactly like just that, unoriginal and recycled, and this was a fairly important part of this novel. – The incest part just wasnt needed and detracted from the enjoyment of the story. The actual book though, not so much, not Stephen Kings best. This review is for the Stephen King novel, though the audiobook narration itself is really superb. I purchased both the kindle book and the audiobook and read and listened to both at the same time, a feature offered by Amazon that I really like.
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