Mr. Mercedes, the first installment of the Bill Hodges trilogy, delivers a gritty school-style detective story
A man in a stolen Mercedes deliberately drives into a queue on the pavement, leaving eight dead and fifteen injured. The driver disappears from the scene. A few months later, a retired, bitter policeman from the same town receives a strange letter from someone who claims responsibility for the crime and also suggests that he is planning a much more horrific attack - a massacre of thousands of people.
A gritty school-style detective story from the pen of the master of suspense, this novel will give readers a terrifying and unforgettable glimpse into the mind of a deranged killer. The story was inspired by a true story.
