{"id":21791,"date":"2024-08-10T08:28:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21791"},"modified":"2024-08-28T08:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:43:50","slug":"book-33-of-52-mr-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/book-33-of-52-mr-mercedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 33 (of 52) &#8211; Mr. Mercedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21792\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mrmercedes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21792\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21792\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mrmercedes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mrmercedes.jpg 256w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mrmercedes-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Mercedes &#8211; Stephen King<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A retired cop finds a new purpose when he is contacted by the perpetrator of one of his unsolved cases.\u00a0 As his off-the-books investigation gets closer to finding its target, he finds himself, and those closest to him, in the crosshairs.\u00a0 Can the cop and his collection of civilian helpers stop the perp before he turns a popular concert into a bloodbath?<\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Mercedes<\/em> is the first entry in Stephen King&#8217;s Bill Hodges Trilogy and introduces readers to the Holly Gibney character that also popped up <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/book-49-of-52-the-outsider\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/book-2-of-52-holly\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 This was more of a thriller than the horror King is usually known for, but it was still a thrilling ride.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be getting to the remaining two entries sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired cop finds a new purpose when he is contacted by the perpetrator of one of his unsolved cases.\u00a0 As his off-the-books investigation gets closer to finding its target, he finds himself, and those closest to him, in the crosshairs.\u00a0 Can the cop and his collection of civilian helpers stop the perp before he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[11565,718],"class_list":["post-21791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-mr-mercedes","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21793,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions\/21793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}