Harry Dolan
Hardcover | Pages: 338 pages Rating: 3.6 | 5441 Users | 939 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Bad Things Happen |
| ISBN: | 0399155635 (ISBN13: 9780399155635) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | David Loogan #1 |
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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. He’s 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, publisher of the mystery 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 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 raising a fifteen-year-old daughter. She’s also the most talented detective in the Ann Arbor Police Department. But when Tom Kristoll turns up dead, she doesn’t quite know what to make of David Loogan. Is he a killer, or an ally who might help her find the truth? Loogan, for his part, would like to trust her, but he has his own agenda. He suspects his friend’s death is part of a much larger puzzle, and he’s not going to wait for someone else to put the pieces together. As Loogan and Elizabeth navigate their way through the Kristoll's 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 don’t want uncovered.
As the deaths start mounting up—some of them echoing stories published in Gray Streets—Loogan 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. But by the time she unravels the twisted skein, Loogan May be indicted for murder—or more likely, become the next victim.
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| Title | : | Bad Things Happen (David Loogan #1) |
| Author | : | Harry Dolan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 338 pages |
| Published | : | July 23rd 2009 by Putnam Adult (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Crime |
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Ratings: 3.6 From 5441 Users | 939 ReviewsDiscuss About Books Bad Things Happen (David Loogan #1)
I have the good fortune to have a friend who works in a bookstore. Everybody who reads a lot should have a good friend who works in a bookstore. They get all of the best new books first, and, if you're really lucky, they have an innate sense of who might like what book ... my friend takes a lot of pleasure in matching books to people. She's not merely good at this, she's great. She'll thrust a book into your hands and say, "I think you'll like this," even if it's a book that you might notFrom ISawLightningFall.comBack-cover blurbs should serve to sell a novel, but those adorning Harry Dolan's Bad Things Happen almost made me put it down. When Nelson DeMille, Karin Slaughter and James Patterson heap kudos on a book, I start thinking, "Yeah, I bet this will end up being a hyper-commercialized title, the kind of mindless mystery that gives the term 'beach read' a bad name." But while Bad Things Happen certainly has mainstream appeal, Dolan possesses more erudition, good humor and
An excellent first novel by an author new to me. Several friends gave this a 4 star review. I don't usually give out so many stars for a mystery-thriller, but Dolan deserves it for this effort & this is a self-contained great start to a series. The characters were excellent. Each was well drawn, an individual without stereotypes or overbearing explanation. It's someone you meet, a slow realization, subtly & fully fed. That includes the mysterious main character that we slowly learn more
In a time when politicians have blown past any sense of normal, one needs fiction that is all the more convoluted. That's how BTH feels with its multitude of twists. A novel that even Stephen King and I can agree on at that.The story has a noir quality of presenting an everyday, straightforward murder that soon throws our protagonist into a deep pit of muck where the struggle to separate fact from conjecture seems impossible to overcome.The more one learns, the more one finds what he knows is
If this book were a story in Gray Streets, it would have had an editor.If this book were a story in Gray Streets, the editor would have made Harry Dolan change at least some of the references to Elizabeth's raven hair to black hair. (I swear, he never refers to it as black--it is always raven.If this book were a story in Gray Streets, the editor would have deleted at least two or three or four or fifteen of the who-knows-how-many plot twists. (Makes you want to scream Enough Already!)If this
I thoroughly enjoyed this first novel (mystery) by an author who lives in Ann Arbor and who sets the book in Ann Arbor. Mr. Dolan's tone and language is consistent, talented, and reminiscent of classic "noir," including both in the dialogue and exposition. The plot is intricate (multiple bodies pile up) and at the same time smoothly logical. He includes just enough suspects to keep the reader guessing (not too many, not too few, but just right) along with unexpected yet plausible plot twists and
It seems like lately Ive been reading a lot of debut novels. I didnt plan it, but on several occasions Ive been pleasantly surprised. Such was the case when I picked up Bad things happen by first time novelist Harry Dolan.The book was unsettling for many reasons. First and foremost because the reader doesnt know who the protagonist is for the bulk of the book. He is referred to for the most part as the man who calls himself David Loogan. Who is he really? An ex-cop (therefore a good guy) an
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