“Joyland,” as this edition says on the cover, is indeed a hard case crime novel. Stephen King spins yet another enthralling story set in a 1970’s amusement park with an ending that’ll have you flipping back to the beginning to see what you missed. However, there is a dash of unexplained deus ex machina involved at the end, but it doesn’t really spoil my enjoyment (plus, I’m a hard facts kind of guy).