Holly: The chilling new masterwork from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller – King Stephen (2023)

Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling English-language horror novel to uncover the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a Midwestern town. When Penny Dahl asks the Finders Keepers detective agency to help locate her missing daughter Bonnie, Holly is reluctant to take the case: her partner Pete has Covid, her complicated mother has just died, and she is supposed to be on leave. Yet Penny's desperate voice makes it impossible to refuse. Nearby live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris, an apparently respectable elderly couple and lifelong academics who conceal an unholy secret in the basement of their book-lined home. Discovering what they are doing will be extremely difficult: the professors are intelligent, patient and ruthless. Holly must draw on all her formidable talents to outthink and outmanoeuvre these shockingly twisted adversaries. The novel follows Holly's transformation from the shy but brave recluse of Mr Mercedes through her work with Bill Hodges in Finders Keepers to the smart and occasionally tough private detective she has become. Stephen King describes Holly as a character he could never let go, one who stole both the book and his heart.