The Outsider: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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About this ebook

King's crime thriller featuring Holly Gibney and Detective Ralph Anderson is now released with a stunning new cover look.

Now you see him. Now you don't.

A horrifying crime.

Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect.

Except he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi.

Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect have been both at the scene of the crime and in another town?

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4.4
248 reviews
Konstantin
August 14, 2019
Book is great. Story is gripping! Keeps you in suspense. Good level of description...Good level of action and most certainly gets you thinking if you go to the toilet at 2am you might meet... the stranger! :) Really enjoyed the book. But the ending part seemed a bit rushed. Also I didnt expect there to be a kind of fantasy element at the end.. Still overall I enjoyed it and would definitely recommend to others!
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Eddie Brender
March 18, 2020
Was enjoying this story, until Holly gibney showed up. Ok Mr Merc was a decent book, but it that and it's follow ups, I did not like bill Holly or Jerome. Brady and Morris, I loved....as characters obviously ..not human beings. But these 3 never floated my boat. And 3 books was surely enough. Having this boring woman reexplained to me totally ruined the story. It's alright . Could of been good.
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Sally Kirman
February 7, 2020
I love Stephen King and this is no exception. It was a page turner for me, reading at every opportunity I could which hasn't happened since I read The Shining. I should never be surprised about finding the supernatural in his books but to start with such a gruesome crime I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but was happily rewarded. If you are considering this book but not fully sold, just do it and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Now onto the next!
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About the author

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His crime thrillers featuring Holly Gibney include Mr Mercedes, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, and The Outsider, both of which were adapted into successful TV series, as well as Finders Keepers, End of Watch and the title story from If It Bleeds. Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time. King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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