Forget horror is crime fiction all the way – Mr Mercedes by Stephen King.
Mr Mercedes – the blurb
The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes’s wheels…
Brady Hartsfield wants that rush again, but this time he’s going big, with an attack that would take down thousands–unless Hodges and two new unusual allies he picks up along the way can throw a wrench in Hartsfield’s diabolical plans.
Move aside crime writers
I never thought I would be reading a stonking crime book from my favorite horror/fantasy writer yet very early on into reading Mr Mercedes I realised I was. King produces a tightly wound game of cat and mouse with a brilliant supporting cast of characters. It’s disturbing and upsetting (King isn’t afraid to go anywhere with this one and he does) yet it’s fascinating and absorbing. It genuinely is one of the best crime books I have read in a while. Is there anything this man can’t write? The best thing about it though is it’s a trilogy so I get 2 more books of Hodges, Jerome and Holly to enjoy. I’m in!
