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Suspense easy to find in new King thriller

THE power of books over readers is a frequent theme in the work of Stephen King.Who can forget Annie Wilkes in “Misery,” chopping off novelist Paul Sheldon’s foot with an ax?

“Finders Keepers” gives us a con named Morris Bellamy whose obsession with the work of a writer named John Rothstein goes way too far. It’s not a spoiler to say Bellamy kills Rothstein (it happens on page 14), steals his unpublished notebooks and dreams about the words inside them during his 35 locked-up years.

While Bellamy’s doing time, a young boy named Pete Saubers, who is also in love with the work of the late Rothstein, finds those notebooks and figures out they could secure his family’s fortune.

What follows happens fast. The plot tumbles along, with the past informing the present and the suspense building until the end.


 

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