Holly

Stephen King

Sep 2023 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Stephen King and Justine Lupe

About this audiobook

#1 New York Times Bestseller * New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Book of the Year

Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.” —BILL HODGES

Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.

Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.

“I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her.” —STEPHEN KING

Ratings and reviews

Separation Anxiety I couldn't wait for this book... all about my favorite character. I put it on for my 5-hour drive, and I had to PULL OVER to turn this tripe off! I was having a PANIC ATTACK! If I wanted to listen to faulty information and LIES I would've called my liberal son or brother. All this country has done since 2020 is fight and separate! ALL I WANT IS PEACE!! I want to listen to a story, NOT CNN!!! I am so disappointed in King.

It is very political, but the story is from Holly's liberal perspective during a time when Covid was heavily in politics and was always in people's faces. Accurate to the times but a thorn in my behind, especially knowing the facts post mandates. It's a good book. You get to see the character development we've been hoping for Holly. It doesn't grab like his other books do, but it's classic King, designed to illicit a response.

This is a love letter to useless masks and ineffective dangerous vaccine . The first 15 mins it turns into a CNN segment . king has always thrown in a dig on conservatives and I have always ignored it and continued to buybthe books. It is now constant . Even if he was pro trump and it was the opposite I wouldn't want to hear this nonsense. SK loves Donald Trump he is so obsessed. I am republican and a nurse who worked through the whole covid inflated insanity. I took care of a whole covid unit of 17 in the delta stage . All were vaccinated . I was going to quit nursing if I had to be vaccinated with the clot shot. I don't want to hear his misinformation when he has no first hand experiences. I'm so sad he can't write without these fabricated political rants. I've never left a review . I love old King books . It's so disappointing I wonder if he even writes his own books anymore honestly .

About the author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.