La sangre manda

The bloodier and more violent a piece of news is, the more it draws people's attention: "Blood rules." This is how the journalistic maxim says that Holly Gibney, the detective to whom Bill Hodges bequeathed his agency Finders Keepers, and one of the characters most loved by fans of Stephen King, is interested in the slaughter at the Albert Macready Institute and ends hooked on the news. This time she must fight what she fears the most... and this time alone. Although Holly, who has already appeared in the "Bill Hodges" trilogy and in The Visitor, stars in her first great solo case in the story that gives the title to this volume, three more stories make up this book. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone" a friendship between two people of very different ages endures more than disturbing. "Chuck's Life" offers us a beautiful reflection on the existence of each one of us. And in "The Rat" a desperate writer faces the darker side of ambition. Four stories in which Stephen King surprises readers again and leads them to intriguing as well as overwhelming places.