About the Author

STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all worldwide bestsellers. His recent titles include The Institute, which was described by the Sunday Express as a 'masterpiece', The Outsider (voted winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for best Mystery and Thriller 2018), and If It Bleeds.Many of his titles have been turned into celebrated films, TV series and streamed events including IT, 'a book which speaks to everybody' (Guardian), The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me.King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.

Reviews

The Outsider gives King fans exactly what they want at the same time as cramming in new ideas, proving the least surprising thing of all: that his novels are as strong as they ever were
*Guardian*

A crime masterpiece that has you gripped throughout
*Dublin Evening Echo*

Nerve-shreddingly brilliant
*Daily Express*

If you read only one thriller this summer, make it this one
*Daily Mail*

King's blend of supernatural crime makes for a taut, clever read that will keep you guessing until the end
*The Sun*

King is arguably as much an American icon as the '68 Fastback or a classic red and white Plymouth Fury. All of these glories are on full display in his latest mystery-horror hybrid...you're in for one hell of a ride'
*The Washington Post*

King pulls back the layers of the everyday to show just how dangerous and threatening the ordinary world we live in case be
*Independent*

Compulsive entertainment
*Mail on Sunday*

So shout it from the rooftops: This new take on the old conundrum of how a man can be in two places at once is sensationally good
*Sunday Express*

The Outsider is a crime masterpiece
*Belfast Telegraph*

This is one of those books where you find yourself rationing the number of pages you read each night to eke it out. A very good read indeed
*The Afterword.co.uk*

Mixing up genres and multiplying the surprises, The Outsider did keep me in suspense and I think that it is a really great King!
*Club.StephenKing*

This chilling novel starts as a police procedural before morphing into the sort of supernatural thriller King is best known for . . . there is violence simmering below the surface of this tightly plotted yarn.
*Daily Mirror*