Zusatztext Only a novelist of the very first rank could combine comedy and tragedy so judiciously Informationen zum Autor STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His titles include Firestarter, Misery and The Talisman (co-written with Peter Straub). Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT , Stand By Me (adapted from The Body ) and The Shawshank Redemption , which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time. King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. Klappentext King's Number One bestselling suspense novel, 'a compelling masterpiece' ( Sunday Telegraph ) about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past. The sheets . . . had to be hung perfectly. She'd go to that window, year in and year out and yell at me: ' Six pins, now, Dolores! You mind me, now . . . I'm counting, and my eyes are just as good now as they ever were! When Vera Donovan is found dead at the bottom of the stairs, the police want to question her housekeeper Dolores Claiborne. And Dolores does have a confession to make. But it's not what the police are expecting to hear as they listen to her life story - a story which hearkens back to her abusive marriage and the suspicious death of her husband in the small Maine community of Little Tall Island. Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. And you'd better pay attention or else. Vorwort Wake up the new reader and shake up the existing reader - between Spring 2021 and Autumn 2024 Hodder is reissuing groups of Stephen King's books in a wonderful new livery. DOLORES CLAIBORNE is a THRILLING SUSPENSE novel, described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'a compelling masterpiece'. Zusammenfassung DOLORES CLAIBORNE is a THRILLING SUSPENSE novel, described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'a compelling masterpiece'....

Only a novelist of the very first rank could combine comedy and tragedy so judiciously

Vorwort
Wake up the new reader and shake up the existing reader - between Spring 2021 and Autumn 2024 Hodder is reissuing groups of Stephen King's books in a wonderful new livery. DOLORES CLAIBORNE is a THRILLING SUSPENSE novel, described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'a compelling masterpiece'.

Autorentext

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His titles include Firestarter, Misery and The Talisman (co-written with Peter Straub).

Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Klappentext

**King's Number One bestselling suspense novel, 'a compelling masterpiece' (Sunday Telegraph) about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past.

The sheets . . . had to be hung perfectly. She'd go to that window, year in and year out and yell at me:* 'Six pins, now, Dolores! You mind me, now . . . I'm counting, and my eyes are just as good now as they ever were!

When Vera Donovan is found dead at the bottom of the stairs, the police want to question her housekeeper Dolores Claiborne.

And Dolores does have a confession to make. But it's not what the police are expecting to hear as they listen to her life story - a story which hearkens back to her abusive marriage and the suspicious death of her husband in the small Maine community of Little Tall Island.

Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. And you'd better pay attention or else.

Zusammenfassung
DOLORES CLAIBORNE is a THRILLING SUSPENSE novel, described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'a compelling masterpiece'.