![]() They have also said that Dolan is good at digging into the darker side of human nature. At first, neither David or Elizabeth take it very seriously, until she disappears.įans of the book have said that it is entertaining enough to hold their interest and that the author is great with details (how to kill someone who is in prison, what someone’s life is like that has constant horrible migraines, etc). Lucy Navarro, a woman that David becomes friends with and tabloid reporter, has an odd theory about the case that is sure to implicate powerful people. It is not long before Lark draws them into his world after sending David a manuscript where he confesses that he killed someone and he will kill again. He is not a master sleuth, and constantly comes up with ideas when trying to piece together clues that are usually wrong. He also tracks down criminals where he continues to learn on the job David continues to edit for Gray Streets and also writes stories for the magazine. David Loogan is now living with Elizabeth and her daughter, who is sixteen years old. ![]() He is hunting men that were once part of a robbery that took place seventeen years ago, and he is going to kill every single one of them. A man named Anthony Lark has a list of names that pop off the page for him. “Very Bad Men” is the second book in the David Loogan series by Harry Dolan. Other readers think that the characters falls apart because of the shifting plot, and a lot of Dolan’s work early on in the book is ruined because of his shifting perspective. Some feel that the book was going pretty good, right up until the cop shows up, after this, it just gets silly they say. They say that this is due to all the explaining of certain things in the book. Readers of the book have found the book to be more exhausting than exhilarating, especially the part where the author tries to tell the readers who the good guys are and who the bad ones are. Fans of this book find the first line of the book to be a great hook, that grabs them and does not let go until they have finished the book. These authors include: Karin Slaughter, Nelson DeMille, Douglas Preston, and James Patterson.įans have praised the book for the fast paced plot, a terrific twist in the book, and does a good job of making the reader laugh. Other authors (all of these authors write mystery/thriller novels as well) have praised the book as well. Stephen King has called this book “a great f-ing book”. Only Elizabeth can figure out what is going on, both in this odd case and with David. More people end up dead and in ways similar to the Gray Streets stories. 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. 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 winds up sleeping with Tom’s wife, Laura, and gets offered a job by Tom as an editor, which David accepts. His new life is threatened when he meets Tom Kristoll, who publishes Gray Streets, a magazine that publishes mystery stories. He tries to write a story that he plans on submitting to Gray Streets, but quickly abandons the project. The reader does not know anything that happened in his past at the start of the book. David Loogan is trying to get away from his violent past and does so by living an anonymous life in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “Bad Things Happen” is the first book in the David Loogan series by Harry Dolan. He graduated from Colgate University, majoring in philosophy and he studied fiction-writing under the tutelage of Frederick Busch, a novelist. He writes the critically acclaimed David Loogan series, a mystery/thriller series. Harry Dolan grew up in Rome, New York, and currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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