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The Happiest Place To Die: A Charlie Pike Novel
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Series: Charlie Pike, Book 1
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Publisher: Michael Allan Cain
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
## *The Happiest Place to Die*
**A Charlie Pike Novel - Book One**
**Every park has a backstage. Not everyone walks out of it.**
Orlando sells sunshine by the millions. Private investigator Charlie Pike knows what it costs to keep the smiles running on schedule.
When April Mercer walks into his Lake Eola office, she has one question the police will not touch: why was her brother Dylan found dead sixty feet above a theme-park midway, after hours, in a place no guest should ever have been? Crown Kingdom calls it a tragic accident. April calls it murder.
Charlie's search pulls him behind the music, fireworks, and spotless façades of Orlando's dream factory - into a pattern of deaths dismissed as bad luck, erased security footage, and a killer who knows the park tunnels better than the people who built them. Each victim leaves behind the same quiet signature: a park lanyard clipped neatly to a railing, returned where it belongs.
Teaming with Detective Marisol Vega and his rescue dog Cy, Charlie must find the person turning accidents into arithmetic before the show goes on again - and someone else disappears backstage for good.
*A fair-play Florida mystery where every clue is on the page. Trust the dog.*
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