The killer tells Hodges how to contact him using an online chat room called Under Debbie’s Blue Umbrella. His depression lifts when he receives a letter from the killer, taunting him for his failure to close the case before retiring. Hodges is divorced, does not have a relationship with his adult daughter, and at times considers death by suicide. One year later, a recently retired detective named Bill Hodges is having a rough time with retirement: His whole identity was defined by his job, and he can’t see a future for himself without it.
The driver kills eight people and wounds 12 more before escaping. Mercedes”) drives a Mercedes sedan into a crowd of unemployed people who are attending a job fair. In April 2009, a man who calls himself “The Mercedes Killer” (or “Mr. It takes place in 2009 and is narrated in the third-person past tense. The novel is divided into three parts, each of which comprises two or three long chapters. This guide uses the 2015 paperback reprint edition published by Gallery Books.Ĭontent Warning: This guide contains incidents of mass violence, suicidal ideation, incest, child abuse, mental illness bias, and racism-including the use of racial slurs-which appear in the source text. Mercedes won the 2015 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was the 2014 Goodreads choice for best mystery and thriller novel.Ī TV series based on the novel premiered in 2017. Mercedes is the first installment of the Bill Hodges trilogy and is followed by Finders Keepers (2015) and End of Watch (2016).
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