About this item
Publishers Weekly11/11/2013 Set in 1998, this prequel to 2009's Bad Things Happen puts Dolan's gifts as a storyteller on full display. Series hero David Malone (who later becomes David Loogan) finds himself sitting in the Rome, N.Y., police station, the prime suspect in the investigation into the murder of Jana Fletcher, with whom he recently began an affair. David soon learns that Jana was involved with the Innocence Project, an organization committed to freeing the wrongly accused. Believing Jana's murder to have some connection with her investigation of Gary Dean Pruett, a man convicted of killing his wife, David searches out those involved in the Pruett case for answers. Throughout David is secretly followed by K, an elusive, homicidal deviant who wants to stop David from discovering the truth.
About the Author
Harry Dolan is the author of BAD THINGS HAPPEN (Putnam, 2009) , VERY BAD MEN (Putnam, 2011) , THE LAST DEAD GIRL (Putnam, 2014) , and THE MAN IN THE CROOKED HAT (Putnam, 2017) . His new novel, THE GOOD KILLER, comes out February 4, 2020, from The Mysterious Press/Grove Atlantic. He graduated from Colgate University, where he majored in philosophy and studied fiction-writing with the novelist Frederick Busch. A native of Rome, New York, he now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
