THE OUTSIDER is a difficult book for me to review. All Stephen King books are difficult for me to review because I don’t want to say too much and spoil his plots.

A police detective, Ralph, publicly arrests a man who he is convinced is guilty of a most heinous crime. There is irrefutable evidence of his guilt. Yet there is also irrefutable evidence of his innocence. How can one man be in two places at the same time?

Ralph joins a group of people who want to investigate this seeming impossibility. One of these people is Holly Gibney of King’s MR MERCEDES series. While she works on convincing Ralph and the rest of the group to believe the unbelievable, they travel out of state to confront the unbelievable.

As usual, this is another long Stephen King book that did not feel long. It is that well done.