When Holly, the niece of the very recently deceased Janey enters the arena with Jerome on behalf of Hodges, who at the time is having a heart attack, ingeniously locates the Mercedes Killer in a crowd of more than four thousand people. Stephen King demonstrates his gift for the profane as well as depicting the human experience with his clever and pervasive writing as well as his unflinching willingness to stare at the ugliest part of humanity.
Thanks to Holly's odd brand of genius, Hodges and Jerome are able to scour the killer's computer and discover his next plot to murder hundreds of people at a pop concert mere minutes away. The group goes to find the perpetrator at home, only to discover the killer deceased mother, rotting away in her bed. Jerome, poring over the photographs of the three repairmen finally recognizes one, the true Mercedes killer as the driver of the local neighborhood ice cream truck, a person with whom he and his family had conversed several times. He finds the names and pictures of the computer repairmen and goes on a hunt to apprehend the suspect before he can harm anyone else. After using the computer files of the late Mercedes owner and the power of the Internet, Hodges realizes that the killer is an employee of a local computer repair company.
When the killer realizes his error, he decides to make one last grand stand by staging a suicide bombing at a concert at the same arena where he'd committed his first infamous massacre.Īfter the death of his new love, Hodges' need to capture the Mercedes Killer grows even stronger and he, Jerome, and Janey's niece Holly begin an increasingly dangerous quest to find and stop the killer before he hurts anyone else. The Mercedes Killer, then embarks on a vendetta to personally dispose of the retired detective with a car bomb that, yet again, never reaches its intended victim, but rather kills Janey, Hodges new paramour. He plans to kill Jerome's dog with poisoned meat in the hopes that it may throw the entire investigation off its course, but his plan backfires when his drunken mother eats the meat herself and dies. He lives at home with his alcoholic mother and the memory of his dead younger brother and allows his insanity and demented ideas to slowly drive him closer and closer to his own demise.
He, a master at hiding in plain sight moves seamlessly in and out of the detective's life, all the while planning and scheming new ways to bring death and destruction on the heads of the people around him that he so despises. As the reader follows Hodges' journey down the path to justice, we, learn more and more about who the killer is and his mindset and motivation for his actions.
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