Colorado Kid
The Colorado Kid ( 2005 ) is Stephen King's contribution to the popular US crime series Hard Case Crime and King's first novel after the Dark Tower series .
content
The short novel (184 pages in the original) tells of an unsolved criminal case in the US state of Maine in the 1980s . The elderly editors Dave Bowie and Vince Teague tell the new journalist Stephanie McCann about the fatality, nicknamed the Colorado Kid because of his origins . Even in retrospect and after Stephanie's numerous speculations, the case cannot be clarified.
background
- The book is about the fascination of the puzzle itself, because every trace leads to a new dead end; even the question of whether there is a murder at all remains speculative. As in The Buick , King wants to show that not every story in life has a clear beginning, a middle and an end. King himself is aware that this story will divide readers (see afterword); he wrote them based on a true newspaper clipping.
- Illustrator Glenn Chadbourne , who is primarily responsible for The Secretary of Dreams in connection with Stephen King , also created illustrations for a special edition of the Colorado Kid .
Audio book
The original English audiobook will be read by Jeffrey DeMunn , who has already adapted Duddits and has appeared in a number of King films.
filming
A loose adaptation as a television series was commissioned by the American special interest broadcaster Syfy in late 2009 and was broadcast from July 2010 to December 2015 under the title Haven .
German first edition
- Stephen King: Colorado Kid. Ullstein, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-548-26378-6 . (Translated from the English by Andrea Fischer)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Serienjunkies.de : Haven: SyFy orders series for the Steven King book . December 5, 2009. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ↑ Serienjunkies.de: Play By Day: "Haven" is launched on SyFy . July 9, 2010. Retrieved July 27, 2010.