# Bad Things Happen

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- Book: [Bad Things Happen](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-dolan/bad-things-happen) ([Bad Things Happen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-dolan/bad-things-happen.md))
- Authors: [Harry Dolan](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-dolan)
- Publisher: Ebury Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0706-067-5
- Published: 2010-07-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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...