Based in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, Kirbi Isaac works for Aldi, Inc., as a district manager. In that position, she has been responsible for as many as half a dozen locations of the popular, low-cost supermarket. An avid reader, Kirbi Isaac enjoys books ranging from the Harry Potter series to the novels of Stephen King.
Among King’s recent works is Finders Keepers (2015), which explores the tenuous relationship between authors and their fans. In the novel, John Rothstein, a reclusive New Hampshire author like J. D. Salinger, gained a reputation in the 1960s as a rebellious author and has been silent since.
When three robbers break into the author’s home, things go wrong, and the author and two perpetrators wind up dead. The third remaining criminal, Morris, is a literary sort, who was inflamed by a plot betrayal by the late author. He finds Rothstein’s unpublished notebooks, including drafts of sequels, much more valuable than the $24,000 the botched robbery netted.
After winding up in jail and being released on parole, Morris returns to his hidden stash and devises a way to help his impoverished family by selling the manuscripts. Unfortunately, a retired police officer is on the case, and a classic race against time ensues, but it also involves a supernatural twist.
Finders Keepers is constructed as a book within a book, and it has been lauded by critics for the way it gets into the mind of those whose lives are changed by the works they consume as readers.
