Bad Things Happen

In the small college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, David Loogan is leading a new and quietly anonymous life. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, the melancholy 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 realise is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: Plans go wrong. Bad things happen. People die. And then one day David's boss phones him in a panic asking him to come to his house immediately. And bring a shovel. 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 know quite 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 ha