Finders Keepers – Stephen King

Morris Bellamy has hit the jackpot.  After killing John Rothstein, author of his favorite books, for what he did to Jimmy Gold, his favorite character, he finds cash and hundreds of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.  Burying his haul in case the police are on to him, he gets arrested and sentenced to life for a different crime before he can enjoy any of it.

Decades later, a teenager finds the buried treasure, using the money to help his family get through hard times.  Things go awry, though, when he tries to sell some of the notebooks to a shady bookseller.  Around the same time, Bellamy is let out on parole and, finding his buried treasure is missing, goes after the one person he told about his crime years before: the crooked bookseller.  Can a local PI, a former cop, and his ragtag collection of civilian helpers stop Morris from killing the teen and his sister in order to get his hands on the notebooks and the unpublished novel?

The second entry in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges Trilogy, Finder Keepers continues the adventures of Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson, although they play a much smaller part in this tale than they did in Mr. Mercedes.  While this is mostly a self-contained story, there are some small vignettes throughout which I assume are setting up the final entry in the trilogy, which I hope to get to soon.