5 Crime Fiction Books Recommended by Stephen King
These thrilling novels give us a range of stories, some based on true events and others into worlds where vampires exist. Characters will face high-stakes situations that not only threaten their own livelihoods but everything and everyone that stands with them. But don’t take just our word for it. Stephen King has raved about how chilling and exciting these voices are.
A working vacation overseas seems to be the perfect way of bringing a new family together after Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and daughter. The family takes a chance at adventure, making their way to a remote Dutch island usually off-limits to outside visitors. But when they set food on the island, everything feels wrong. An accident becomes the Baxter’s worst nightmare, separating Tom from Heather and the kids, who are forced to escape alone. It’s now up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even if it means doing the unthinkable to keep them alive.
It’s the summer of 1976. Jessie and his brother Edgar are on the road searching for victims. For seventy years, they’ve lived their lives as rovers, nearly indestructible nocturnal beings who must consume blood to survive. Their routine gets shaken up when a young woman forces Jesse to confront his past and plunges his present into chaos as he scrambles to save her life. The brothers, a grieving father searching for his son’s murderer, and a violent gang of rover bikers will come together to a shattering conclusion in Las Vegas.
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