A few months later the son gets a girl pregnant and the two lovebirds go on a cross-country Bonnie & Clyde type crime-spree which ends in both their deaths. He commits this crime to get his hands on the 100 acres of farm land she inherited when her father died and to stop her from selling them to a slaughterhouse. It’s King’s best work in recent years.ġ922: A man blackmails his teenage son into helping him murder his wife and dump her body in an old well behind the house. However, I read it for the first time only a few months ago. It was published in 2010 and I bought it on release. This is my second read through of Full Dark, No Stars. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN – my name is Wilfred Leland James, and this is my confession’. What would you do if the man who keeps his nails short and clean isn’t the man you think he is? And now he’s coming home. Her toe knocks up against a box under the worktable and she discovers her husband’s dark and terrifying secrets. In the final story, ‘A Good Marriage’, Stephen King poses the question ‘is it possible to fully know anyone, even those we love the most?’ When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. In the darkly amusing ‘Fair Extension’, cancer ridden Harry Streeter makes a deal with a man selling all sorts of extensions mortgage extensions, loan extensions and in his case, a life extension.

Violated and left for dead, Tess draws on her skills as a crime writer to plot a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger – the one inside herself.

In ‘Big Driver’, a cosy mystery writer named Tess encounters a stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book club engagement. For country loving James, that stranger is awakened when his wife proposes selling off the family farm in isolated rural Nebraska and moving to the city of Omaha. ‘I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger…’ writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting murder confession that makes up ‘1922’, the first in this pitch black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme ‘retribution’.

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