Holly

Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers agency with a plea: help her find her missing daughter. Holly Gibney, the detective who takes the call, would rather not accept. Her partner Pete is ill with Covid, her difficult and complicated mother has just died, and Holly is supposed to be on leave. Still, the raw fear in Penny's voice leaves her unable to refuse.

A few streets from where Bonnie Dahl vanished, Rodney and Emily Harris lead a life that looks like a model of settled propriety. Both are academics who spent their careers in universities and have mostly stepped back from work. They are in their eighties and have been devoted to each other for decades. Yet their orderly house, lined with books, hides a dark secret in its basement, one that may tie into Bonnie's disappearance. Exposing it will be nearly impossible, because the Harrises are shrewd, patient, and merciless.

Holly is a character Stephen King first introduced in his Bill Hodges trilogy.