Cover and synopsis for Stephen King’s Finders Keepers!

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Publishing house Simon and Schuster has released the plot synopsis and book cover for Stephen King’s new novel, FINDERS KEEPERS, which is a follow-up to last year’s MR. MERCEDES. (These books are part of a trilogy, it has been revealed.)The book once again has King exploring the tumultuous waters of what it means to be a writer, something he’s done rather successfully in the past.

“Wake up, genius.” So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.

Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he’s released from prison after thirty-five years.

Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life—for good, for bad, forever.

FINDERS KEEPERS will be released on June 2nd.