Never Flinch
On sale
4th June 2026
Price: £10.99
Genre
From master storyteller Stephen King comes a thrilling new novel with intertwining storylines – one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker – featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.
After the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person who is threatening to kill ‘thirteen innocents and one guilty’ in an act of retribution, Detective Izzy Jaynes turns to her friend Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers Agency for help.
Meanwhile, outspoken activist Kate McKay is embarking on a lecture tour. But someone has started disrupting her events, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard.
In a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusion.
After the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person who is threatening to kill ‘thirteen innocents and one guilty’ in an act of retribution, Detective Izzy Jaynes turns to her friend Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers Agency for help.
Meanwhile, outspoken activist Kate McKay is embarking on a lecture tour. But someone has started disrupting her events, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard.
In a feat of storytelling only Stephen King could pull off, these twinned narratives converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusion.
Reviews
Stephen King's favourite detective gets another case . . . and it is, as ever, a joy to see her brilliant leaps of intuition and to watch her warm relationships with her small but devoted group of friends.
Holly is one of the most appealing investigators in contemporary crime fiction . . . Never Flinch contains plenty of King's trademark chilling moments, with the two storylines expertly entwined.
Among his most exuberant outings.
An action-packed climax that plays out hour by hour, then minute by minute.
The master storyteller has lost none of his grasp of the dark heart in the soul of Middle America: the result is simply superb.
A genuine page-turner guaranteed to keep you reading long into the night . . . Jam-packed with wonderfully drawn heroes and villains and a sinuous plot guaranteed to have you perched on the edge of your seat.
So quintessentially King that I absolutely adored every second of reading it.
With two dramatic storylines in one book, Never Flinch is a double treat for Stephen King's fans.
What makes the book unnerving and impossible to put down is how real and plausible everything described can be.
A nailbiter . . . the propulsive plot will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime
Action packed
King raises the stakes . . . and the body count
The cinematic style we crave from a Stephen King novel
A writer of towering brilliance