Bad Things Happen

Bad Things Happen

Summary

David Loogan is leading a new and quietly anonymous life in a new town. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, the melancholy publisher of the crime magazine Gray Streets - and into an affair with Laura, Tom's sleek blond wife.

When Tom offers him a job as an editor, Loogan sees no harm in accepting. What he doesn't realise is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula:

PLANS GO WRONG. BAD THINGS HAPPEN. PEOPLE DIE.

Then one night David's new boss phones him in a panic, asking him to come to his house immediately. And bring a shovel...

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  • Bad Things Happen is a very smart, well-written roller coaster ride that is always threatening to hurl the reader out into roaring empty space. Go along for the thrill ride!
    James Patterson

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Harry Dolan

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