Award winning author set to wrap up his crime trilogy next summer

16:52 - 09 October 2015

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End of Watch, the final instalment in King’s trio of novels about a retired detective in pursuit of a multiple murderer, will be published in June 2016

The end is near for Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy, his foray into crime fiction.

King will conclude his trilogy about retired detective Bill Hodges and multiple murderer Brady Hartsfield in a new novel, due out next year.

King’s publishers have announced that the final novel in the Hodges trilogy, "End of Watch" will be published on 7 June 2016. Guardian U.K reports.

The novel is the third, after "Mr. Mercedes" and "Finders Keepers," to feature retired police detective Bill Hodges. "End of Watch" will feature another recurring character, Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield, and his extraordinary powers even as he lies in a vegetative state.

UK editor Philippa Pride at Hodder & Stoughton said End of Watch brings the trilogy “to a terrifying and poignant conclusion”, praising “the brilliant versatility of Stephen King’s writing as he takes the detective novel [in] a sublimely powerful new direction”.

End of Watch will bring the series to a "sublimely terrifying conclusion," as King combines crime fiction with the supernatural.

The first novel in the series, Mr Mercedes, is being developed for television by Sonar Entertainment. “When it comes to grabbing an audience by the throat and giving them no choice but to keep reading, King has no equal, and I challenge you not to finish this novel in one breathless sitting,” wrote author Michael Marshall Smith of the novel in the Guardian.

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