Mr Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy) Book #1 by Stephen King

Synopsis :

In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.

Months later, an ex-cop named bill Hodges, still haunted by the unsolved crime, contemplates suicide. When he gets a crazed letter from "the perk," claiming credit for the murders, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, fearing another even more diabolical attack and hell-bent on preventing it.

Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of eccentric and mismatched allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.

This is what I say :

For a title from Stephen King, this book is totally void of anything paranormal or horror or anything that goes bump in the night.  It is actually a detective genre which is the first I read from Stephen King.

So, let's cut to the chase and let me  share with you what I think.  Strange is the feeling I get after reading this book because it is very unexpected and very different from what you would expect from Stephen King

For a detective book, Mr Mercedes wasn't that bad. It wasn't very good either and I have read better content but I guess for a first time foray into a different genre by the author, it was quite good.

You have a retired cop running around training to solve the case with two most unlikely side kicks and an extremely psychotic killer.  I understand there's two more titles in the universe of Bill Hodges entitled Finders Keepers and End of Watch.  Will be on a look out for them. 

I read this as an e-book.