Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King, is a novel whose main character is the kind of person who plows through a line of people waiting at a job fair and gets away with it. Told in semi-alternating chapters between the killer and the retired detective trying to hunt him down, you will cringe through Mr. Mercedes' sexualized reminiscing of his murdering spree, and you will barely breathe as you follow the detective’s clues to catch the killer…It’s like a demon that has sunk its claws into your arm and is sliding you slowly down into hell. I tried to think about reading something else, but my mind kept slipping back…
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