Length 475 pages
Format softcover
Published 2018
Series Standalone / Finders Keepers #4
My Copy I bought it
The brutal and graphic murder of a young boy allegedly by his Little League coach, Terry Maitland makes Detective Ralph Anderson, who has a son similarly aged see red. With the bull rag waved, he rushes head on into the investigation, cuffing Maitland in front of a crowd in an attempt to take the monster off the street. But in his haste for a swift arrest, he overlooked an important aspect of police-work - the alibi. Terry has one, and it's air tight.
The Outsider is stock standard Stephen King; interesting characters, surreal suspense, and murder most macabre. With the good, comes the bad, and in this case its a combination of long winded dialogue, chapters which slow the plot pace to a near standstill, and an ending which felt too daytime TV for my liking.
My rating: 3/5 stars. Stephen King writes tomes; big stories that sometimes warrant hefty word counts. This one could've been condensed considerably. Still well worth checking out for readers of crime and horror as the mash-up really worked well.
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