The Colorado Kid

Stephen King

Oct 2005 · The Hard Case Crime Book 1 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this eBook

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues.
But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...?
No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...

Ratings and reviews

Wanted to read this because I have become a fan of SyFy's Haven, which they say is based loosely off of this story. I do have a little more background now, but I will have to binge watch Netflix for the rest of my weekend off to feel like I know what's going on. :-)

Stephen spent the afterword of this short and uninspiring tale begging for understanding in an almost apologetic tone, as well he should have. I get what King was attempting to convey, and I'm sure it was interesting to him, and mayhap it should have remained with him. I hear he has a whole safe full of script that hasn't realized daylight, this should have maintained a proud rank among them.

Kind of dry. Its about 2 reporters retelling an unfinished story. If you habe watched the haven tv show based off this book you will enjoy reading about 3 characters that are in the show but it missed the mark for me. Nothing like the show.

About the author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.