This was a very un-King-like book at first glance ... which is totally fine. No author should have to shoehorn themselves into a box just to maintain their "style". At the same time, I'm usually not a fan of crime thrillers, but I enjoyed this a lot. The book definitely had some issues - the characters tended to be kind of flat and this wasn't SK's best writing - but I couldn't put it down. I had to find out what happened. For once, a thriller than actually thrilled me! So for that reason alone, I'm giving it four stars.