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Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries. When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. “I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her.” — STEPHEN KING
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"Holly demonstrates that one of the last true rock stars of fiction can continue to grow as a writer, and doesn't define success solely as a continuation of what's worked for him before." -The Washington Post
"Stephen King does something amazing in his new novel, HOLLY... King's storytelling skills are not dimming one bit." -Tampa Bay Times
"Hugely successful... Holly surely deserves further episodes in the spotlight." - Portland Press Herald
"Holly has a thrilling finish, in which our heroine looks horror in the face. The outcome is most satisfying." -St Louis Post-Dispatch
"What makes King's work so much more frightening than that of most other suspense writers, what elevates it to night-terror levels, isn't his cruelty to his characters: It's his kindness." -Flynn Berry, New York Times Book Review
"Both intimate and sprawling in its ambitions... Holly is the imperfect but determined angel among all those demons..." -Brian Truitt, USA Today
"Holly is the heart of the narrative. Her growth from a shy, muttering mess in Mr. Mercedes to the smart, strong, smoking, slightly better, and much richer woman we see in Holly is tremendous. Please, Mr. King, give us more Holly soon." -Gabino Iglesias, NPR.org
"In half a century of writing horror novels, Stephen King has created some remarkable villains. Who can forget the sing-song voice of Pennywise the clown, the devil incarnate Randall Flagg, or the drooling jaws of Cujo? The big bads in King's latest novel, Holly, aren't quite so memorable, but that's part of what makes them terrifying." -Rob Merrill, Associated Press
"A deadly folie a deux... Holly pursues this case to the gates of hell, figuratively-there's no supernatural element in this powerful exploration of grief and delusion, just pure, undistilled evil." -New York Magazine
