The Colorado Kid is a mystery novel written by Stephen King and published for Hard Case Crime in 2005. The story is set on an island off the coast of Maine where a man was found dead twenty-five years ago. The tale is framed as an oral narrative by two investigative reporters to their young intern as a means of testing her mettle and welcoming her to the island.
When the man was found with no identification it wasn’t until a year later that his name was found due in part to the determination of the two reporters and a graduate student in forensics. The mystery lay in how he wound up on the beach and why he was in Maine in the first place.
I first began this story with an audio book and stopped a short way in due to not liking the narrator. It wasn’t until years later when I watched the television show Haven and saw that it was loosely based on this book that I went in search of a print copy. Having found a used copy of the book I tried once more to finish this tale.
The Colorado Kid is more in the vein of Stephen King's fictional short stories than his supernatural / horror novels. The story itself has no action and no definitive ending. Overall I thought it was ho-hum. I recommend this only if you are bored and want a fast read or just simply have to read everything by a beloved author.
If you are a fan of the television series Haven and are afraid of uncovering secrets by reading the book, have no fear. Aside from an old photo of the Colorado Kid and the two reporters, not to mention the island and the Grey Gull, there are no other similarities as yet revealed.
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