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If It Bleeds: A riveting, dark story collection featuring 'The Life of Chuck'
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The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller featuring the story 'The Life of Chuck', adapted for film by Mike Flanagan, starring Tom Hiddleston and winner of the People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival.
News people have a saying:
'If it bleeds, it leads'.
Following a horrific explosion at a school, Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency notices something suspicious about the TV reporter who is first on the scene. In this riveting title story, Holly sets out to discover what he is hiding in her first solo crime case.
Dancing alongside this stand-alone sequel to The Outsider are three more irresistible long stories: 'Mr Harrigan's Phone' sees young Craig introduce a curmudgeonly retired businessman to the wonders of the smartphone; 'The Life of Chuck' is a three act life-story - told in reverse order - about a man whose face appears on a billboard; and 'Rat' sees a struggling author head to a remote cabin in the woods of North Maine, where a deal-making rodent offers him a life-changing pact.
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Praise for If It Bleeds
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Full of vividly drawn characters and unsettling themes, If It Bleeds is another tour de force by a master storyteller - Daily Express
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Such glimpses into King's own mind are riveting and satisfyingly terrifying. Read the book for this - Evening Standard
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The horror writer is at his familiar best with four suspenseful and sometimes surprisingly tender novellas... If It Bleeds brings together four new stories, all offering vintage King themes with their own particular twist... King, as always, is right on the money - Observer
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The titular novella is...an impeccably judged whodunnit...the other three [are] readable, engaging studies of male lives at different stages - The Sunday Times
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You may wonder if the great yarn spinner of the supernatural possesses psychic abilities of his own because this collection of short stories is so timely... Spine-chillingly brilliant - The People
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You'll fly through IF IT BLEEDS - Daily Telegraph
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You are drawn in immediately and kept guessing until the end - the Sun (On the audiobook)
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Four wonderful stories - Press Association
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