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Name: Dolores Claiborne
Rating: 3.272727272727 (22 reviews)
Author: Stephen King

In Stephen King’s hard‑boiled narrative set in rural Maine, the protagonist Dolores Claiborne confesses her life story to police after being suspected of killing her wealthy employer, Vera Donovan. While recounting her struggling marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier, Dolores also details Vera’s physical and mental decline and the evolving demands of their relationship. The book offers a grim, first‑person examination of abuse, survival, and justice within a small community.

First publish date: 1992

Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller

Authors: Stephen King

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