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Finders Keepers is not so much a book as a shot-by-shot description of a future film

Stephen King’s latest foray into hard-boiled detective fiction has a definite whiff of Elmore Leonard — without the humour

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

Finders Keepers Stephen King

Hodder, pp.384, £20, ISBN: 9781473698994

Finders Keepers is a sort-of sequel to last year’s Mr Mercedes, Stephen King’s first foray into what he called ‘hard-boiled detective fiction’. The new book is not so much hard-boiled as slowly poached, Heston Blumenthal style, in a sous-vide water oven, then finished on a violently hot grill.

King has the popular novelist’s gifts in spades — a flawless sense of pace, an ear for dialogue, an eye for the telling detail, a no-mess-no-fuss approach to characterisation.

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