Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
SRP 2013 REVIEW: I enjoyed the book. It was typical of the mystery genre of paperback novels back in the day. King has a knack for spinning a yarn that was endearing yet subtly suspenseful.