TY - BOOK AU - King, Stephen TI - Never flinch: a novel SN - 9781668089330 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2025/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Women detectives KW - Fiction KW - Women private investigators KW - Women political activists KW - Women bodyguards KW - Stalkers KW - Serial murder investigation KW - Serial murders KW - Women's rights KW - lcgft KW - Horror fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N2 - When Detective Izzy Jaynes receives a letter threatening to “kill 13 innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” she has no idea what to think. As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes the letter writer is serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help. Meanwhile, women’s rights activist Kate McKay is on a multi-state lecture tour, but someone who opposes Kate’s message is disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard - a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness ER -