Bad Things Happen

David Loogan is leading a new and quietly anonymous life in a new town. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll the melancholy publisher of the crime magazine Gray Streets - and into an affair with Laura Tom's sleek blond wife. When Tom offers him a job as an editor Loogan sees no harm in accepting. What he doesn't realise is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: PLANS GO WRONG. BAD THINGS HAPPEN. PEOPLE DIE.Then one night David's new boss phones him in a panic asking him to come to his house immediately. And bring a shovel...