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Never Flinch
by Stephen King
A letter promises thirteen innocents and one guilty. Holly Gibney has weeks to work out what that means.
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An anonymous letter to the Buckeye City police promises to kill thirteen innocents and one guilty, in revenge for a wrongful conviction. Detective Izzy Jaynes calls the one investigator she trusts: Holly Gibney.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
King runs two threads in parallel: a methodical revenge killer working through a list, and a controversial feminist speaker on a lecture tour with a stalker in the crowd and Holly hired as her security. The strands converge with the mechanical satisfaction King has been perfecting for fifty years, and Holly - anxious, precise, quietly formidable - remains one of the most durable detectives in contemporary crime fiction.
The editorial feature
Late-period King in comfortable command: propulsive, talky, morally clear-eyed about the culture-war pressures around its characters. Not the book to start with, but for readers who have followed Holly since Mr Mercedes it is a satisfying, occasionally very tense outing.
Book details
- Genre
- Thriller
- Released
- 27 May 2025
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Featured on
- 27 May 2025
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