What We're Reading: Edward

"Bad Things Happen" by Harry Dolan

"Plans go wrong, bad things happen, people die" is the definition that Tom uses to select stories for his literary magazine, "Gray Streets." Tom edits a story for the magazine by David. But David keeps working on the story. Eventually Tom asks David to help him edit other people's stories for the magazine. Then one night Tom calls David to have him help bury a dead body in a park. Now bad things start to happen.Tom is found dead on the pavement under the window to his sixth story office. Did he fall or was he pushed? Next the person of interest in Tom's murder is found dead. Again it looks like suicide, but it could have been murder. David begins to write stories to explain the two murders. But Detective Waishkey keeps telling him that murders in the real world are not like stories in "Gray Streets." Another murder happens at David's house. Now David is a person of interest. He flees Ann Arbor. While the police search for David, he keeps in touch with Detective Waishkey by phone. Working together will they be able to keep more murders from happening?
Or will they become the next victims?
This is one of my favorite novels of 2009.