The Colorado Kid

Stephen King’s bestselling unsolved mystery, THE COLORADO KID – inspiration for the TV series HAVEN -- returns to bookstores for the first time in 10 years in an all-new illustrated edition.

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, and it’s more than a year before the man is identified. And 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 moving and surprising tale whose subject is nothing less than the nature of mystery itself...

"This little meditation is absolutely something that should be read by all crime and mystery fans. Stephen King is a master, and this is one of his most finely-wrought works" --The Crime Review

"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. It s a moving and surprising tale whose subject is nothing less than the nature of mystery itself." --The Malestrom

"A gentle mystery, one that explores the genre as well as small town life in a way that I found utterly beguiling" --SciFi and Scary

"As a Summer read, read whilst sat on a holiday beach perhaps, it s just the ticket." --SFF World

"It ll break your heart and it ll make you smile, but more than all of that and anything else, it ll confound, bamboozle and invite you to formulate a hundred different ideas about what really happened to The Colorado Kid." --Mass Movement

"I really enjoyed The Colorado Kid... The chapter illustrations are beautiful and I adore the old pulp fiction style." --Tracey Drew Books

"A really impressive demonstration of how King is one of the best storytellers around." --Runalong the Shelves

"A captivating story that is full of spirit, a little gem of a thought-provoking book." --The Tattooed Book Geek