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The Outsider

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781473676398

Price: £10.99

ON SALE: 10th August 2023

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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King’s crime thriller featuring Holly Gibney and Detective Ralph Anderson is now released with a stunning new cover look.

Now you see him. Now you don’t.

A horrifying crime.

Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect.

Expect he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi.

Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect have been both at the scene of the crime and in another town?

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Reviews

King pulls back the layers of the everyday to show just how dangerous and threatening the ordinary world we live in case be
Independent
Compulsive entertainment
Mail on Sunday
The Outsider gives King fans exactly what they want at the same time as cramming in new ideas, proving the least surprising thing of all: that his novels are as strong as they ever were
Guardian
Nerve-shreddingly brilliant
Daily Express
If you read only one thriller this summer, make it this one
Daily Mail
King pulls back the layers of the everyday to show just how dangerous and threatening the ordinary world we live in case be
Independent
Compulsive entertainment
Mail on Sunday
So shout it from the rooftops: This new take on the old conundrum of how a man can be in two places at once is sensationally good
Sunday Express
The Outsider is a crime masterpiece
Belfast Telegraph
This is one of those books where you find yourself rationing the number of pages you read each night to eke it out. A very good read indeed
The Afterword.co.uk
Mixing up genres and multiplying the surprises, The Outsider did keep me in suspense and I think that it is a really great King!
Club.StephenKing
King's blend of supernatural crime makes for a taut, clever read that will keep you guessing until the end
The Sun
A crime masterpiece that has you gripped throughout
Dublin Evening Echo
King is arguably as much an American icon as the '68 Fastback or a classic red and white Plymouth Fury. All of these glories are on full display in his latest mystery-horror hybrid...you're in for one hell of a ride'
Karin Slaughter, The Washington Post
This chilling novel starts as a police procedural before morphing into the sort of supernatural thriller King is best known for . . . there is violence simmering below the surface of this tightly plotted yarn.
Daily Mirror
This police procedural morphs into a gripping, chilling supernatural thriller
Daily Record
The Outsider gives King fans exactly what they want at the same time as cramming in new ideas, proving the least surprising thing of all: that his novels are as strong as they ever were
Guardian
Nerve-shreddingly brilliant
Daily Express
If you read only one thriller this summer, make it this one
Daily Mail
So shout it from the rooftops: This new take on the old conundrum of how a man can be in two places at once is sensationally good
Sunday Express
The Outsider is a crime masterpiece
Belfast Telegraph
This is one of those books where you find yourself rationing the number of pages you read each night to eke it out. A very good read indeed
The Afterword.co.uk
Mixing up genres and multiplying the surprises, The Outsider did keep me in suspense and I think that it is a really great King!
Club.StephenKing
King's blend of supernatural crime makes for a taut, clever read that will keep you guessing until the end
The Sun
A crime masterpiece that has you gripped throughout
Dublin Evening Echo
King is arguably as much an American icon as the '68 Fastback or a classic red and white Plymouth Fury. All of these glories are on full display in his latest mystery-horror hybrid...you're in for one hell of a ride'
Karin Slaughter, The Washington Post
This chilling novel starts as a police procedural before morphing into the sort of supernatural thriller King is best known for . . . there is violence simmering below the surface of this tightly plotted yarn.
Daily Mirror
This police procedural morphs into a gripping, chilling supernatural thriller
Daily Record