Bad Things Happen Hardback - 2009

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The man who calls himself David Loogan is leading a quiet, anonymous life in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Heas hoping to escape a violent past he would rather forget. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, the publisher of the mystery magazine Gray Streetsaand into an affair with Laura, Tomas sleek blond wife. What Loogan doesnat realize is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: Plans go wrong. Bad things happen. People die.
Elizabeth Waishkey is a single mother. Sheas also the most talented detective in the Ann Arbor Police Department. But when Tom Kristoll turns up dead, she doesnat know quite what to make of David Loogan. Is he a killer, or an ally who might help her discover the truth? Loogan suspects his friendas death is part of a much larger puzzle, and heas not going to wait for someone else to put the pieces together. As Loogan and Elizabeth navigate their way through Kristollas world, they find no shortage of people with motives for murder, from a young graduate student obsessed with Laura Kristoll to a trio of bestselling writers, all of them with secrets they donat want uncovered. But as the deaths start mounting upasome of them echoing stories published in Gray StreetsaLoogan begins to look more and more like the most promising suspect. Soon it becomes clear that only Elizabeth can find the path to solving both the murders and the mystery of Loogan himself.