Land of happiness | Stephen King

The university student Dafin Jones obtained the summer job in Joyland, hoping to forget the girl who broke his heart. But the wound he suffers from worsened due to more terrifying matters, because of the legacy of a malicious crime, and the fate of a rebellious child, and dark truths about life - and what follows - will change his life forever. A captivating story about love and loss. About reaching adulthood and aging. And about those who cannot grow up because death suddenly takes them before their time. "Land of Happiness" is the pinnacle of Stephen King's literary abilities. From the atmosphere of the novel, we read: "This story was published by the Herald newspaper in Wake Cross." There was a picture showing a dark police officer holding a bucket of cement for tire marks. Theories say he threw it where her neck was cut. The story says the tire marks belong to a truck. "He threw it as trash," I said. "Just a guess too, but realistic." And he handed me another photocopy of a newspaper clipping. "Here's number two. Claudine Sharp from the Rocky Mountains, right here in North Carolina; white, 23 years old. Found dead in a local theater on August 2, 1963. The film being shown was Lawrence of Arabia, and it happened to be very long and loud. The person who wrote the story quotes an anonymous police source saying that the man might have cut her neck during one of the battle scenes. Pure guesswork, of course. And he left a blood-stained shirt and gloves, so he must have left with the shirt he was wearing under the first one..." Victims five, maybe more, killed by one man, in Land of Happiness, a captivating, breath-taking story. Amid a strange, astonishing world.