Stephen King-Bag Of Bones-(2011)-720pHDTVRip-(Part 1&2)-prodprof

The narrator, Mike Noonan, suffers severe writer's block after his pregnant wife Jo dies of a brain aneurism. Fortunately, Mike has four unpublished manuscripts that will hide his problems for a time.

Four years after Jo's death, Mike begins to experience nightmares set at his summer house in TR-90, an unregistered township in Maine. He decides to confront his fears and moves to the house, known to locals as Sara Laughs. Mike finds Kyra, a young girl, walking down the road on her own. He rescues her from a near accident and brings her back to her mother, 20-year-old Mattie Devore.

Mike learns from his caretaker Bill that Mattie's father-in-law is Max Devore, an elderly rich man who will do anything to gain custody of his granddaughter, Kyra. Kyra's father, Lance, has died. Max learns of Mike and threatens him over the situation. Mike hires John Storrow, a custody lawyer, for Mattie. In passing, Mattie repeats a remark once made to her by Max Devore, implying that the two men's great-grandfathers were associates. Mike is puzzled by this, since his family came from points quite distant from TR-90.

Max manages to drag Mike into the custody battle by forcing him to make a deposition for the impending custody hearing. Accompanied by a local lawyer, Romeo Bissonette, Mike makes the custody lawyer hired by Devore look foolish by beating him at his own game and calling his bluff.

Mike begins to write again. Mike realizes that the ghost of Jo is assisting him in solving the mystery of Sara Tidwell, a blues singer whose ghost is haunting the house. Mike asks the locals what happened to Sara Tidwell, and is warned to refrain from digging in old scandals. He also learns that Jo frequently returned to the town in the year before her death, without telling him.

In an encounter with Mike, Max Devore and his personal assistant, Rogette, try to drown Mike. Mike survives due to the help of his wife's spirit. In an unexpected turn of events, Max Devore commits suicide, which seemingly leaves Mattie and Kyra free from his influence.

Throughout the novel, Mike has complex dreams of Sara Tidwell, Mattie, and Jo; he speaks on the phone with Mattie and can tell not only what she is wearing, but what she is thinking. After Devore's death, Mike is plagued by uneasy feelings on behalf of Mattie. Clues gradually appear, provided by Jo, while Sara Tidwell's spirit fights to keep him from learning the truth. He begins to understand some of it when he notices how many names of local inhabitants begin with a "K" or "C." He learns how relatives of several people he knows in town have drowned in childhood.

Mike, Mattie, John, Romeo Bissonette, and George (a detective that helped Romeo with the trial) are having a party when two gunmen commit a drive-by shooting. Mattie is killed, while John, Romeo and George are wounded. Mike, the only adult not hit, takes Kyra back to Sara Laughs as a huge storm breaks. Under the influence of the ghost of Sara Tidwell, he finds himself preparing to drown Kyra and commit suicide himself, going so far as to give Kyra cocoa and Benadryl to make her sleep, and drawing the bath. The ghost of Jo is trying to prevent him.

Jo's spirit calls Mike's attention to the novel he has begun to write. Hidden in the pages are clues that clarify some of the mysteries. As Kyra sleeps, Mike goes to Jo's studio to search for answers. He discovers documents that Jo had hidden away, among them a genealogy showing Mike's blood relationship to one of the town families. Several families had firstborn children with "K" names who had been murdered or died under suspicious circumstances. The genealogy shows that Mike and Jo's child would have been the next firstborn child with a "K" name in the family line. Mike realizes this must be Sara Tidwell's curse for something that had been done to her. He leaves the house with a shovel and a bottle of lye to search for Sara's grave, knowing that the only way to break the curse is to destroy Sara's bones. On his way the ghosts of Max Devore's grandfather and several members of the old families attempt to stop him. Mike learns in a vision that these men had viciously raped and killed Sara, and drowned her daughter Kiesha in the lake; all the "K" children who have died were descendants of those men. Mike makes it to the gravesite, but Sara's ghost tries to stop Mike by assuming corporeal form. Jo appears in corporeal form as well, as Sara has been taken over by an "Outsider" to harm Mike and prevent him from reaching Sara's bones. Jo struggles to fight off the Outsider while Mike digs up and destroys Sara's bones with the lye, ending the curse.

Returning to the house, Mike discovers that Rogette has kidnapped Kyra. Mike follows Kyra and Rogette to a neighboring property, arriving just as Kyra bites Rogette and attempts to flee onto a floating dock heaving in the waves from the storm. Discovering the last mystery surrounding Sara's curse, Mattie's ghost appears and knocks Rogette into the lake. Rogette tries to pull Mike in with her, but is impaled by wreckage from the dock. Mattie's ghost says her goodbyes to Mike and Kyra, telling Kyra that she is now Mike's "little girl".

The novel ends with an epilogue in which readers are told that Mike has retired from writing and is attempting to adopt Kyra. His status as a single, unrelated male complicates things, and the adoption has taken longer than Mike anticipated. The state has allowed Kyra overnight stays with Mike. The outcome of the adoption is left unresolved at the end of the novel, but the reader is given hope that it will be a positive outcome. The Outsider is also referred to when the "bag of bones" reference is touched on: "It wants what's in the bag."

Classic Stephen King, a great trip back to where he belongs - firmly rooted in the believable fiction genre.