The protagonist in Holly, by Stephen King, is a private detective who was a popular minor character in other King work who has earned her own novel. Holly is a private detective hired to find a missing girl. The investigation leads to other disappearances, but not bodies. Turns out the bad guys are husband and wife professors with medical conditions. She has sciatica, he has arthritis and early-onset dementia, and they believe consuming human flesh will make them better. (There has to be a joke about academia hidden somewhere in there). The action picked up during the last 100 pages of the book, but you have to wade through the first 350 pages to get there. Kirkus Reviews says the narrative is framed as a mystery without delivering the pleasures of a mystery.

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About Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines including Cagibi Literary Journal, Stoneboat, The Aurorean, The Ocotillo Review, London Reader, and in anthologies including for a better world 2020 and Anthology of Appalachian Writers Vol. X. He received Kentucky State Poetry Society’s Chaffin/Kash Prize in 2019. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, but summers in Ecstasy and winters in Despair.

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