That also allows King a lot of leeway in shaping Detective Anderson’s supremely skeptical character.

Unlike many of King’s novels ( The Stand, It, Under the Dome), The Outsider is not centered around a group of disparate people facing a common threat, at least initially, so much it’s about how they solve a mystery – which means The Outsider takes its time getting to its climax. But King doesn’t ladle this on with obvious metaphors – he just situates his story in a town we can recognize, populated by people we can easily believe whose reactions we can easily understand. (He also brings back a beloved, delightful character from a previous work, whom I shall not identify.) The Outsider is perfectly timed for our suspicious, social-media-driven age, when an accused man is automatically presumed to be guilty and just as quickly transformed from admired figure to hateful villain. This, of course, is where King excels setting forth provocative scenarios that keep you turning the pages, aided by his uncanny gift for creating characters that are utterly believable. how can Maitland also be seen on video asking writer Harlen Coben a question at a writer’s conference he was attending at the same time far away from the murder scene, and how can his fingerprints be on a book he looked at in the conference hotel gift shop? Police detective Ralph Anderson is so sure of Maitland’s guilt that he arrests him publicly at a game after all, he has eyewitnesses to Maitland’s picking up the boy and DNA evidence, too. The Outsider is quasi-police procedural and part horror, set in a fictional Oklahoma town called Flint City, and beginning with the arrest of respected teacher and beloved baseball coach Terry Maitland for the heinous rape and murderer of an eleven-year-old boy. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch) to the sensational and incredibly visceral science-fiction novel Under the Dome, as well as his touching, thoughtful time travel tale 11/22/63 and Revival, his chilling examination of life after death. He’s also maintained a high quality of output in recent years, from his Mr.

In fact, he has two books out this year from Scribner, The Outsider, currently in bookstores, and Elevation, a short novel due out in October. Stephen King turned 70 almost a year ago but this most prolific of authors hasn’t slowed down one iota.

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