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

I loved it, keeps you going and can't put it down. With the ending, I feel like you can figure out a whole slew of ideas of what happened. I feel like I have settled on one that makes the most sense to me and that's what I'll stick with. I think I could go mad from all the what ifs and buts. It truly is an "unfinished" story, but that's what makes it a mystery.

My daughter was the one who read this book and is missing only about three to four books by Stephen King. She absolutely loved it and was only disappointed that she couldn't get it in print to go in her collection. She calls him the Master of Horror and started her collection in her early teens I've 20 years ago. I am so happy he is still writing

Stephen King is a great writer. Mostly horror, not this case. Mystery! I watched the series based on this book called 'Haven'. They have 'troubles'. Which isn't mentioned in the book. But the couple of mysterys mentioned became a trouble story. Dispite seeing Haven first the book was a good read. Even though 'The Colorado Kid' story in both differ quite a bit.

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 (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), 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.