-Witty, sophisticated, suspenseful and endless fun...the best first novel I've read this year.- -Washington Post
-A hypnotically readable novel, with...dialog worthy of Elmore Leonard.---Douglas Preston
The man who calls himself David Loogan is hoping to escape a violent past by living a quiet, anonymous life in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But when he's hired as an editor at a mystery magazine, he is drawn into an affair with the sleek blond wife of the publisher, Tom Kristoll-a man who soon turns up dead.
Elizabeth Waishkey is the most talented detective in the Ann Arbor...

From the national bestselling author of Bad Things Happen--the debut that Stephen King called a "great f***ing book"--comes a new crime novel that will blow readers away...

ANTHONY LARK has a list of names--Terry Dawtrey, Sutton Bell, Henry Kormoran. To his eyes, the names glow red on the page. They move. They breathe. The men on the list were once involved in a notorious robbery. And now Lark is hunting them, and he won't stop until every one of them is dead.

DAVID LOOGAN--editor of the mystery magazine Gray Streets--is living a quiet...

David Loogan's dark past is revealed in this prequel to Bad Things Happen--the critically acclaimed mystery that Stephen King called a "great f***ing book."

On a rainy night in April, a chance encounter draws David into a romance with Jana Fletcher, a beautiful young law student. Jana is an enigma: living in a run-down apartment with only the barest of possessions, sporting a bruise on her cheek that she refuses to explain. David would like to know her secrets, but he lets them lie--until it's too late.

When Jana is brutally murdered, the police consider David a prime...