The mega-bestselling author's latest novel featuring the detective is enough, but the character deserved something more.

Not, that is, until Holly Gibney came along. If Holly isn’t in Captain Ahab’s rank yet, give her time. Only a fool would count her out. Defeating an evil clown who lives in the sewer system is ...

It’s the first entry in the Bill Hodges trilogy, and also introduces Holly Gibney as a side character. Finders Keepers is the second novel in the Bill Hodges trilogy, and follows an obsessive ...

The guy knows how to fill up pages, and although it’s no 1,000-plus tome like “The Stand,” “Never Flinch,” his seventh Holly Gibney outing, is 448 pages strong. To be sure, King has more ...

“The Outsider” features private investigator Holly Gibney, a recurring character in King’s oeuvre, most recently in 2023’s ...

Imagine Jimi Hendrix also being a tuba virtuoso, or Andy Warhol also excelling on an Etch-A-Sketch. The artistic greats, the geniuses, are often really, really good at one thing. Then there’s ...

Stephen King’s first editor, Bill Thompson, once said, “Steve has a movie camera in his head.” So vividly drawn is King’s ...

There are two ways that authors typically write with recurring characters. In series like Arthur Conan Doyle’s early Sherlock Holmes stories or Sue Grafton’s “alphabet” mysteries, the ...

Not, that is, until Holly Gibney came along. If Holly isn’t in Captain Ahab’s rank yet, give her time. Only a fool would count her out. Charlotte insisted that Holly’s obsessive-compulsive ...

In Stephen King's 2023 crime novel, "Holly," the author's favorite character (and mine), Holly Gibney, solves a series of grisly murders in her first stand-alone book after appearing as an anxiety ...