JOANNE (joann) - , reviewed on 8/4/2021 + 412 more book reviews

Morris Bellamy is so angry with author John Rothstein. His character "Jimmy Gold" has sold out and there are no more books being written to change that. Morris has found the author and his treasure trove of writings that are in moleskine notebooks in the author's safe in his home in New Hampshire.
Morris then kills the author and collects the notebooks and the cash that is in said safe.
He then hides the chest in the woods behind a houst e that he lived in in his youth. Are there more Jimmy Gold stories in those notebooks? He will find that out at a later time, as the murder of the author would make it impossible to bring that evidence forward.
Morris then gets arrested and put in jail for what seems like a lifetime for a different crime.
Decades later, Peter Saubers is a high school student living in the house that Morris lived in as a youth. One evening, he goes to the river and finds the chest buried under a tree. Pete is also a fan of the Jimmy Gold series and realizes what he has found. But the notebooks are secondary to the cash in envelopes in the chest also.
His father was injured in the Mr. Mercedes killings, and the family has been struggling financially after the injury. Peter finds a way to provide the cash slowly to his family to get them back into an OK state.
Morris gets released from prison early and goes in search of the chest with the treasured notebooks.

Re-enter Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney & Jerome Robinson from the Mr. Mercedes case.

This book grabbed me from the first pages. Draws you right in. Nothing surprises me about that, Mr. King in one of my absolute favorites. He still has it.

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