Haven Returns for a Third Season

If you are a fan of supernatural stories with a little bit of humor, you may want to check out the third season of SyFy's Haven, which starts tonight.  Yes, SyFy has some pretty strange shows with barely enough acting to hold them together, but this show holds up pretty well under such scrutiny.  Each week someone in the town with special powers will cause a problem and only FBI Agent turned town cop Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) and fellow cop Nathan Wuornos (Lucas Bryant) can seem to make sense of it all.  You also have petty criminal Duke Crocker (Eric Balfour) having problems taking sides in the middle of all the mayhem. 

The series is based on Stephen King's The Colorado Kid. I never read the book, but here is a quick summary from Amazon:

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. 

But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? 

No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...

I do not really see the connection based on this short summary, particularly since the television show revolves around the law enforcement team rather than the reporters, though two elderly reporters are part of the weekly episodes.  Maybe I will pick up the book someday.  But, in the meantime, I will enjoy the television version.