5/13/2023 0 Comments The outsider review book![]() ![]() Agent: Chuck Verrill, Darhansoff & Verrill. ![]() King’s skillful use of criminal forensics helps to ground his tale in a believable clinical reality where the horrors stand out in sharp relief. What begins as a manhunt for an unlikely doppelgänger takes an uncanny turn into the supernatural. The case’s contradictory evidence compels Anderson and officials associated with it to team up with Holly Gibney (the deceased Hodges’s former assistant) to solve it. While I thought the first 100 pages or so where quite tame and at time at bit. Only one problem: at the time of the murder Terry was attending a teachers’ conference in a distant city, where he was caught clearly on videotape. The Outsider is a great story filled with suspense, thrills and the supernatural. Ralph Anderson of the Flint City, Okla., police force appears to have beloved youth baseball league coach Terry Maitland dead to rights when he publicly arrests him for the grisly murder of an 11-year-old boy, since the crime scene is covered with Terry’sįingerprints and DNA. MWA Grand Master King wraps a wild weird tale inside a police procedural in this nicely executed extension of his Bill Hodges detective trilogy (begun with 2014’s Mr. ![]()
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