Meanwhile, Hodges teams up with Jerome, a computer whiz teen, and Holly, Janey’s cousin who suffers from mental illness but is also a computer genius, to help him uncover Mr. Her death makes Hodges even more determined to track down the man he still knows only as the Mercedes Killer. In retaliation Brady sends Hodges a message saying he will kill him.īrady plants a bomb in Hodges’ car which would have killed him if Hodges had been driving the car when the bomb was detonated. Before he can get the meat to the dog, however, Brady’s mother makes lunch with the hamburger and dies. Brady decides to retaliate by killing the dog of one of Hodges’ friends with poisoned hamburger meat. Through his messages, Hodges gets Brady riled up with taunts that Brady is not the real Mercedes Killer. Meanwhile, Brady Hartsfield has begun communicating with Hodges through an internet website. Janey believes the man toyed with her sister until she committed suicide. He first questions Janelle “Janey” Patterson about Olivia’s death and learns that Olivia received a letter from Mr. Instead of becoming suicidal, Hodges takes a new interest in catching Mr. He is setting his sights on Hodges, hoping to push him into suicide as well because Hodges was the lead detective on the case of the City Center Massacre. The caller, whom the reader knows is Brady Hartsfield, goaded Olivia Trelawney, a woman from whom he stole a car he used to kill eight people at a job fair, into committing suicide. Not long after retiring from his job as a detective, Bill Hodges gets a letter from a man claiming to be the Mercedes Killer. This novel follows the escapades of Hodges, a retired police officer who is not yet ready to give up on solving the City Center Massacre, a case he handled while on active duty. Mercedes is the first installment in the Bill Hodges trilogy. Mercedes from detonating a bomb during a sold out pop concert in this novel by Stephen King. Mercedes, published June 3, 2014.Ī retired police detective, a teenage black boy, and a neurotic woman team up to form an unlikely group of heroes who stop a killer known as Mr. NOTE: All citations in this Study Guide refer to the Kindle version of Mr.

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