Analysis Of Bad Things Happen By Harry Dolan

Harry Dolan grew up in Rome, New York, and currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He writes the critically acclaimed David Loogan series, a mystery/thriller series. He graduated from Colgate University, majoring in philosophy and he studied fiction-writing under the tutelage of Frederick Busch, a novelist.

"Bad Things Happen" is the first book in the David Loogan series by Harry Dolan. David Loogan is trying to get away from his violent past and does so by living an anonymous life in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The reader does not know anything that happened in his past at the start of the book. He tries to write a story that he plans on submitting to Gray Streets, but quickly abandons the project. His new life is threatened when he meets Tom Kristoll, who publishes Gray Streets, a magazine that publishes mystery stories. He winds up sleeping with Tom 's wife, Laura, and gets offered a job by Tom as an editor, which David accepts. The stories that Gray Streets publishes all seem to follow the same pattern; people make plans that wind up failing, usually badly, bad things happen, and people wind up dying. He quickly ends up being implicated in the death of someone close to him, and it leads the detective (Elizabeth Waishkey) investigating the case to be confused about him. More people end up dead and in ways similar to the Gray Streets stories. Only Elizabeth can figure out what is going on, both in this odd case and with David.

Other authors (all of these authors write mystery/thriller novels as well) have praised the book as well. These authors include: Karin Slaughter, Nelson DeMille, Douglas Preston, and James Patterson. This book alone has over a hundred five star reviews on Amazon. Not bad for an author just releasing his first