3.75 stars. I really love the Bill Hodges series and have loved watching Holly grow and become a very strong and capable woman despite her upbringing and definite autism. I also always really enjoy the mystery and thriller bits of these Finders Keepers detective novels. This was a good read if you have read the Finders Keepers trilogy and enjoyed those as a detective/mystery/thriller novel.

This book has made me want to create and include these new trigger warnings: COVID and Trump. This book takes place mostly in 2021 and I was having flashbacks to how life was just getting out of the brunt of the disease and the Delta variant happening during the fall.
And, I hate Trump as much as the next democrat, but apparently not as much as Stephen did, because boy does he bring it up a lot and every chance he gets. Every person dead from COVID in this book? Trump supporters and COVID deniers. In the end, it got a little overwhelming for me and kinda sucked some of the enjoyment out of the book.

LOL, this book probably isn't a great choice if you're republican and you really liked a man-child bully Trump as president. I guess you weren't a COVID denier or else, according to this book, you wouldn't be reading this review because you'd be DEAD!