Holly (Portuguese Edition)

by Stephen King, Regiane Winarski (Translator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

The Stephen King fan favorite (and favorite of King himself) Holly Gibney is back, and now she’s the main character in her own feature story. Matched up against two Moriarty-esque professors, she has to continue to grow as a detective, as she has in all her other appearances.

Holly Gibney surgiu tímida e reclusa em Mr. Mercedes e se tornou uma detetive particular talentosa. Neste romance inédito de Stephen King, ela retorna para enfrentar dois adversários perversos.

Penny Dahl está desesperada para encontrar a filha, Bonnie, que sumiu sem deixar vestígios. Em busca de ajuda profissional, ela liga para a agência Achados e Perdidos, sob o comando de Holly Gibney. A detetive reluta em aceitar o caso, porque deveria estar de licença, mas algo na voz de Penny faz com que Holly não consiga ignorar o pedido.
A poucos quarteirões de onde Bonnie foi vista pela última vez, moram Rodney e Emily Harris. Um casal de acadêmicos octogenários, dedicados um ao outro, eles simbolizam a banalidade da classe média suburbana. No entanto, no porão de sua casa bem cuidada e repleta de livros, os dois escondem um segredo terrível, que pode estar relacionado ao desaparecimento de Bonnie.
Descobrir a verdade se torna uma tarefa quase impossível, e Holly dependerá de seus talentos extraordinários para desmascarar os professores — antes que eles ataquem novamente.

"Eu não conseguia deixar Holly Gibney partir. Ela deveria ser uma personagem secundária em Mr. Mercedes, mas acabou roubando a cena e o meu coração. Holly é única." — Stephen King

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788556512024
Publisher:	Suma
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	945,528
File size:	2 MB
Language:	Portuguese

About the Author

STEPHEN KING nasceu em Portland, no Maine, em 1947. Em 1974, publicou Carrie, seu livro de estreia, que logo se tornou um clássico contemporâneo. Já escreveu mais de setenta best-sellers mundiais, como Depois, O Iluminado, It: A coisa, Misery e À espera de um milagre. Em 2003, recebeu a medalha de Eminente Contribuição às Letras Americanas da National Book Foundation e, em 2007, foi nomeado Grão-mestre dos Escritores de Mistério dos EUA. Ele mora em Bangor, no Maine, com a esposa, a escritora Tabitha King.

Hometown:

Bangor, Maine

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1947

Place of Birth:

Portland, Maine

Education:

B.S., University of Maine at Orono, 1970

Website:

http://www.stephenking.com

Editorial Reviews

A tour de force. Creepy as hell but full of heart, too.” —Linwood Barclay, #1 internationally bestselling author of Take Your Breath Away and Look Both Ways

From the Publisher

08/01/2023

King gives former supporting player Holly Gibney (introduced in Mr. Mercedes) her own full-length novel to solve the case of a missing person. Private investigator Holly is supposed to be on bereavement leave after the death of her mother, but she can't dismiss the persistent Penny Dahl. Penny's daughter Bonnie disappeared while biking home from work a month earlier, and the police didn't have time for more than a cursory investigation into what seemed to be a case of an adult walking away from her own life. Holly investigates, with help from friends. She soon realizes that Bonnie's is not an isolated case; others have gone missing in the last few years. The only similarity among the disappeared people is that they were last seen in the same area. The deeper Holly goes, the more convinced she becomes that something very sinister is going on. VERDICT King's choice to set the novel in the middle of COVID works, both to develop his characters and to keep Holly off base, emotionally and professionally. He eschews the supernatural here but finds all the horror possible in the evil that "normal" people may do. Mystery and horror readers will find much to love.—Jane Jorgenson

Library Journal

2023-07-13
A much-beloved author gives a favorite recurring character her own novel.

Holly Gibney made her first appearance in print with a small role in Mr. Mercedes (2014). She played a larger role in The Outsider (2018). And she was the central character in If It Bleeds, a novella in the 2020 collection of the same name. King has said that the character “stole his heart.” Readers adore her, too. One way to look at this book is as several hundred pages of fan service. King offers a lot of callbacks to these earlier works that are undoubtedly a treat for his most loyal devotees. That these easter eggs are meaningless and even befuddling to new readers might make sense in terms of costs and benefits. King isn’t exactly an author desperate to grow his audience; pleasing the people who keep him at the top of the bestseller lists is probably a smart strategy, and this writer achieved the kind of status that whatever he writes is going to be published. Having said all that, it’s possible that even his hardcore fans might find this story a bit slow. There are also issues in terms of style. Much of the language King uses and the cultural references he drops feel a bit creaky. The word slacks occurs with distracting frequency. King uses the phrase keeping it on the down-low in a way that suggests he probably doesn’t understand how this phrase is currently used—and has been used for quite a while. But the biggest problem is that this narrative is framed as a mystery without delivering the pleasures of a mystery. The reader knows who the bad guys are from the start. This can be an effective storytelling device, but in this case, waiting for the private investigator heroine to get to where the reader is at the beginning of the story feels interminable.

Loyal King stans may disagree, but this is a snooze.

Kirkus Reviews