the colorado kid

Not a bad way to spend a few hours, but I really could have done without those last few pages.

Later by Stephen King

March 10, 2021 by scootsa1000 2 Comments

Like The Colorado Kid and JoyLand before it, Later is one of King’s Hard Crime Case releases – paperbacks made to look like pulp paperbacks with vibrant cover art (that doesn’t always match up to the story), that all come in on the short side for King, maybe about 250 pages. The main reason that I don’t think this one was quite as successful as the other two is that this one takes place pretty close to now. The main character, Jamie, is a young […]

Amused at his sudden detour into delicacy on her account…

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

October 24, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

One of the few remaining Stephen King novels I’d not yet read, and honestly one of the ones I barely had any consciousness of whatsoever. The cover and the description make it sound way way way different than the actual novel is. This is not noir or anything close to it. It all takes place in a newspaper work room as two old timer newspaper men in a small town tell a story of a body found on the beach some 25 years earlier to […]

Lucky #13

August 9, 2017 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

Writing a mystery with no solution is an easy thing to do. All you need is some inscrutable pieces of information and no way for a reader, or the characters, to be able to piece the whole thing together in a way that brings satisfaction. Bad writers do this kind of thing all the time and try to pass it off as enigmatic. It takes a master to write a mystery with no solution and still make the journey feel worthwhile to the reader. That […]

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I think I outgrew Stephanie Plum, but this sounds great.

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