From the bestselling author of 'The Outsider,' 'Mr. Mercedes,' and 'Billy Summers.'

Ten years ago, Stephen King signed a two-book deal with Hard Case Crime, a publisher specializing in hard-boiled detective stories. This book is the author's first attempt at writing a hard-boiled detective story.

'Happy Land' is one of the author's best-selling books in Russian over the past ten years.

The film rights to the novel have already been purchased by the Freeform channel.

Abstract

Student Devin Jones, who decides to work part-time at the amusement park 'Happy Land,' suddenly finds himself in a kind of parallel world.

Here, people live by their own rules, speak a special language, and really don't like it when someone asks 'unnecessary' questions. Especially if they concern the murder of a young girl, Linda Gray, whose body was found in the park, in the 'House of Horrors' pavilion.

Trying to find answers to these questions, Devin realizes that dangerous secrets are hidden behind the bright facade of the amusement park, and if he stirs up the past of the inhabitants of the 'land of joy', then his own life can incomprehensibly change once and for all...

Author: Stephen King