Finders Keepers

15 hrs. 18 min.

Language Russian

Author Stephen King

Narrator Igor Knyazev

Stephen King, the King of Horror, has always known how to intrigue readers—so there’s nothing surprising about how well he writes detective novels. “Finders Keepers” (working Russian title: “Treasure Hunters”) became the second novel in the trilogy about retired detective Hodges.

The novel begins with events of 1978, when burglars wearing ski masks break into the home of the famous writer John Rothstein. One of these uninvited guests, Morris Bellamy, turns out to be a devoted fan of Rothstein’s work—the author had become famous thanks to the trilogy about rebellious teenager Jimmy Gold. But this fan absolutely didn’t like the ending of the trilogy, where the main hero settles down and becomes “just like everyone else.” Morris is so furious at the author for this “betrayal” that he’s ready to kill him. One can’t help thinking of another novel about an obsessed reader—“Misery.”

After killing the writer and stealing the money from his safe—along with a large number of notebooks containing unpublished works—the burglars flee the crime scene. For Morris, money means absolutely nothing. But the manuscripts are priceless. He waits impatiently for the chance to read them, hoping he’ll find a continuation of the story of Jimmy Gold—yet fate decides differently. Bellamy ends up in prison, but not for murder— for assaulting the writer. Fortunately, he managed to hide the notebooks and the money. However, by court decision, he will stay behind bars for life. Morris doesn’t have to die in prison: after 36 years of imprisonment, he is released under an amnesty. Even in his pre-retirement years, he walks out with only one thought: to get to the notebooks as soon as possible and read them. But he doesn’t know that his treasure has already been found by a boy whose father was among those injured by the Mercedes driver at the fair of vacancies in 2009.

Morris doesn’t like this at all, and he will do anything to get his treasure back. Help comes to the boy from the trio of detectives from the first part: Hodges, Holly, and Jerome.

Will the good guys manage to win over the bad? Will there be a happy ending like in the first part—or will King not spare readers and add tragedy and horror? Find out the answers to these questions in Stephen King’s new novel “Finders Keepers.” Here, an intense detective plot intertwines with everyday problems of crisis-stricken America. The characters’ personalities are so deep and multi-faceted that you worry not only about the positive characters, but also about the negative ones. It seems that many readers will relate to the feelings Morris Bellamy had—the desire to read the new work of his favorite author as soon as possible. Many will also sympathize with the difficult fate of writers, who sometimes become hostages of their own creativity, and sometimes—through the eyes of readers—are treated like a typewriter, an instrument that must share its talent with the world.

1. Mr. Mercedes (narrated by Igor Knyazev) 2. Finders Keepers 3. End of Watch (narrated by Igor Knyazev) 4. The Outsider (narrated by Igor Knyazev)