The Body (1982), Fall From Innocence, a Novella by Stephen King: a summary
It had been driest an hottest since 1907-or so the newspaper said, and on that Friday preceding the Labor Day weekend and the start of another school year, even the goldenrod in the fields and ditches beside the backroads looked parched and poorly. Nobody’s garden had done doodly-squat that year, and the big displays of canning stuff in the Castle Rock Red & White were still there, gathering dust. No one had anything to put up that summer, except maybe dandelion wine.
11/22/63 (2011), a novel by Stephen King: summary
Harry Dunning raised the diploma, holding it carefully by the fingertips, as if the inks might smear. He preferred to calling him Mr. Epping than calling him Jake, it’s a little perk to a students who were old enough to be his father. Jake Epping took his student to Al’s diner, where Jake was the only faculty regular, and although he actually had a waitress that summer, Al served them himself. Kids avoided Al’s like the plague. The meals at Al’s were always remarkably cheap, which had given rise to rumors about the fate of certain stray animals in the vicinity. He took a picture of Jake and Harry. Two years later, on the last day of school year, Jake was sitting in that very same teacher’s room, and reading his final essay.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982) (Hope Springs Eternal), Different Seasons, a Collection of four novellas by Stephen King: summary
Narrator is Red, a prisoner who knew how to get things, he committed murder, and a man who proud to be an Irish. When Andy came to Shawshank, the federal prison in Maine, in 1948, he was thirty years old. He was short, neat little man with sandy hair and small, clever hands. He wore gold-rimmed spectacles. Andy was in a murdering his wife and her lover. He had a wife, Linda Collins Dufresne- she had interest in learning the game of golf. Her instructor was a golf pro, Glenn Quentin, in the late August of 1947 Andy learned that Quentin and his wife had become lovers. She told Andy that she planned to obtain a divorce. She went off to spend the night with Quentin in Quentin’s rented bungalow not far from the golf course. The next morning his cleaning woman found them dead in bed. Each hand had been shot four times.
Apt Pupil (1982), a Crime Novella by Stephen King: summary
He looked like the kind of kid who might have a paper route, and a matter of fact, he did the Clarion in Santo Donato. Todd Bowen was thirteen years old, five-feet-eight and a healthy one hundred and forty pounds, hair the color of ripe corn, blue eyes, white even teeth, and lightly tanned skin marred by not even the first shadow of adolescent acne.
His father was an architectural engineer who made forty thousand dollars a year. His mother had majored in French in college and had met Todd’s father when he desperately needed a tutor. She typed her manuscripts in her spare time. She had kept all of Todd’s old school report cards in a folder. Her favorite was his final fourth grade card on which the teacher had scratched: ‘Todd is an extremely apt pupil.'
Hide and Seek, James Patterson: Summary
Her drunkard husband was going to kill her and their young daughter Jennie. Two deafening shots came from his gun. Mother and daughter hid and the father seek. He fired right to them. The mother fired back. Almost a year after Philip’s death, she moved to New York. She passed the audition the songs for Barry Khan, the Barry Kahn, the singer-composer who had electrified America a decade ago and now was one of the most important record producers in the world.
The sixth-year-old boy found his father had purposefully walked outside his house and drowned himself in the family pool. A few days after their father’s suicide, Will and Palmer filled their suitcase each and moved to London. Their mother refused to take them to live with her. They were to begin new life with their aunts, Eleanor and Vannie, whom they had never met, but who made the two-suitcase rule.
The Midnight Club, a Novel by James Patterson
The full team Narcotics detectives assembled to seize Alexander St-Germain called the Grave Dancer; the man who had been Stef’s obsession during the past twenty – two months. Detective Stefanovitch regularly got the most important narcotics cases in the NYPD. He was talented. He lived with his wife. With Anna, Stef had a way of doing wonderfully romantic things. He had become a master of unexpected: a dozen American roses arriving at the school where his wife thought fourth grade. For few past years he had been the department’s “big play” man. That night, his Narcotics detectives were breaking the street law. They were striking a major St-Germain drug factory inside the U.S.
Dr. Death, a novel by Jonathan Kellerman: Summary
There were two hikers with dog that found the corpse in the van; Paul Ulrich and Tanya Stratton. Milo has interrogated them as the important witness. Milo Sturgis asked his friend a psychological consultant Dr. Alex Delaware to investigate the death of Dr. Eldon H. Mate. Dr. Death was found death in a rental van. Coroner said the potassium had kicked in for at least a few minutes, so Mate would’ve been dead from that. The head wound was serious and some others wounds too. It was deliberate cuts, eight of them, deep – abdomen, groin, and thighs. Squares, like the killer was playing around. The killer left the van in full sight look like wanting the body to be discovered. The killer left a note and tacked to Mate’s chest. Computer-typed: Happy Traveling, You sick Bastard.”
Flesh and Blood, an Alex Delaware novel by Jonathan Kellerman: Summary
An old patient, Lauren Lee Teague, gets in touch. In take date, ten years ago, presented problems with poor school achievement – possible depressed- suspect drug use. Her father, Lyle Teague did something in the building trades and her mother, Jane Teague, was a former flight attendant, now a full-time mom. A heavy smoker – forty- five minutes without tobacco had been torture. Alex Delaware gave consultant for her but stop suddenly. Fifteen, but she could’ve passed for twenty. A striking good – looking girl found her parents only got married because they had to. She found her parents wedding license just two moths before her birthday. It’s only two sessions and a cancellation call with no explanation.
Deception Point (2001), Dan Brown: summary
The woman was attractive, in her mid-thirties. Her posture was straight - not arrogant, but just strong. She just stepped into a luxury restaurant, adjacent to Capitol Hill. Few women dined at that restaurant and even fewer who looked liked Rachel Sexton. Senator Thomas Sedgewik Sexton was a regular there, and currently one of the country’s most famous men. He was virtually guaranteed his party’s nomination for President of United States.
When Rachel arrived at her father’s table, the senator was in his cellphone talking loudly. The man was a silver-haired, silver-tounged political animal who anointed with the slick look of a soap opera doctor, seemed appropriate considering his talents of impersonation. Senator asked her about the last proposition and now he offered a new proposition- some prominent divorce looking for a wife.
The Hit by David Baldacci: Summary
Will Robie was an accomplished sniper. He recently turned forty. While other people in his early age were either going home to spouse and kids or going out with co-workers or maybe on a date, Robie was alone in a closet in waiting for someone to appear so he could kill him. Doug Jacobs, the man who guided him to the target, got killed. Blue Man, of course, was not his real name, had trusted Robie to hunt the sole suspect. Blue Man was indeed high up in the agency. Jessica Reel was the only female operatives they’ve ever had. Robie studied that woman but he never knew that Reel needed more information about Robie. She had thought he would be the one to come after her. Robie and Reel were a team ten years ago.
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