This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
Good morning all from the dreary and rainy Pacific Northwest! I had a tough time finding a book to match my mood this morning, and while this one doesn’t quite fit, it at least has an umbrella on it! It does sound rather dark and thrilling which is a book I can usually get behind this time of year.
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Publication Date: June 2014
Summary from Goodreads:
In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.
Months later, an ex-cop named Bill Hodges, still haunted by the unsolved crime, contemplates suicide. When he gets a crazed letter from “the perk,” claiming credit for the murders, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, fearing another even more diabolical attack and hell-bent on preventing it.
Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of eccentric and mismatched allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady’s next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.
Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.
That is a bit of a creepy cover, but this isn’t one of his horror books, although I suspect there will be some gruesome violence. When I get around to this one, I will probably be doing the audiobook. The narrator is one of my favorites, Will Patton, so I am sure he will do an excellent job with this one.
Until next time…..
Confessions of a Serial Reader 
Sounds interesting. I want to read more Stephen King. I’ve only read one – Salem’s Lot.
We had a weather warning for wind, but luckily there wasn’t much damage around the area.
Have a great week!
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