I‰ЫЄve read better detective books, but this one did hook me from the start and keep me engaged the entire novel. I got annoyed with the regular use of the misleading foreshadowing at the end of chapters (i.e. Little did he know he would not return to the house that night....etc). A bit anticlimactic at the end. Not a bad novel, but not incredibly impressed with my first Stephen King novel.