Many jobless people are standing in line for a job fair, but then a Mercedes S class plows into the crowd, killing eight and severely injuring many. An excerpt was published in the issue of Entertainment Weekly. Mercedes involves a terrorist plot which is "too creepily close for comfort". Describing the novel for an interview with USA Today, published on September 18, 2013, King said that while it was started prior to the Boston Marathon bombings, Mr. Mercedes and inspired by a true event about a woman driving her car into a McDonald's restaurant, it was originally meant to be a short story just a few pages long. Background information ĭuring his Chancellor's Speaker Series talk at University of Massachusetts Lowell on December 7, 2012, King indicated that he was writing a crime novel about a retired policeman being taunted by a murderer. The novel won the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and Goodreads Choice Awards for 2014 in the "Mystery and Thriller" category. Mercedes was published, and End of Watch in 2016. It is the first volume in a trilogy, followed in 2015 by Finders Keepers, the first draft of which was finished around the time Mr. He calls it his first hard-boiled detective book. Mercedes is a novel by American writer Stephen King.
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