It is revealed that this emotionally-disturbed man in his late twenties had lost his father at age eight, lives with his alcoholic mother and works in an electronics shop and as an ice cream seller. Hodges is intrigued and starts to investigate the case, instead of turning the letter to his former police colleague, Pete Huntley.Ī new perspective in the novel opens with the introduction of Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes killer.

Mercedes knows details of the murder and also mentions Olivia Trelawney, from whom he had stolen the Mercedes she committed suicide soon after. The incident had taken place at the end of Hodges' career and was still unresolved when he retired. Mercedes' who claims to be the Mercedes killer. Suddenly he receives a letter signed by a 'Mr. He is divorced, lonely and fed up with his life, occasionally considering suicide. Immediately after that, the protagonist is introduced, Bill Hodges, a former police detective retired for six months. The novel starts with a scene in which jobless people stand in line for a job fair, when a Mercedes rides into the crowd and kills eight people and injures many severely. Mercedes from detonating a bomb during a sold out pop concert in this novel by Stephen King. Mercedes is the first installment in The Bill Hodges Trilogy.Ī TV series based on the novel premiered on August 9th, 2017.Ī retired police detective, a teenage black boy, and a neurotic woman team up to form an unlikely group of heroes who stop a killer known as Mr. The book was released on June 3, 2014, and was followed in 2015 by a sequel, Finders Keepers. It is his 52nd novel, and the 45th under his own name. Mercedes is the 65th novel book published by Stephen King.

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