The Outsider

About 30 pages in you already knew that this was going to be a far better book than Sleeping Beauties, more Stephen-y.
It starts out as a normal, albeit macabre, police procedural but about a third into it it takes a turn... and then another... and then another.
I liked the first half of the book best, and kinda wished it would have stayed that way for the rest of the story, but it was still a compulsive read.
King's well-known talent was on full display, his characters well-rounded as usual.
Also, there's a reunion with an old character...

Highly recommended, 4½ stars :)