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This week’s list includes Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy), from Stephen King. Press play and stay for every chapter.

2016 Audie Award Finalist for Best Male Narrator A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far – a recording about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes .  “Wake up, genius.” So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.  Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he’s released from prison after 35 years.  Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life – for good, for bad, forever.  ©2015 Stephen King (P)2015 Simon & Schuster

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