Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan, narrated by Erik Davies
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Synopsis:
The mysterious David Loogan comes to Ann Arbor, Michigan to lead a quiet life and recover from his past. Unfortunately, he gets drawn into a working relationship with Tom Kristoll, publisher of the literary magazine Grey Street, which is devoted entirely to mysteries, who makes him an editor of the magazine. Oh, and he also gets drawn into a more intimate sort of relationship with Tom’s wife.
In pretty much every Grey Street story the same formula appears: ‘plans go wrong, bad things happen, people die.’ When this same formula begins appearing in Loogan’s own life, things get messy.
Thoughts on the story:
Here’s where I admit that I listened to this back in JANUARY of 2010 and am just not writing the review in June. Oops. Clearly I can’t tell you anything really detailed about the plot, since it has been six months. But here’s what I can tell you: if this book hadn’t been spectacular, I wouldn’t be bothering to write ANYTHING about it 6 months later. I love, love, loved this. It was this fun sort of gritty crime drama that had the potential to be a little cheesy but totally wasn’t.
Thoughts on the audio production:
As much as I enjoyed the story, probably the thing I loved most about this audio was the narrator. Erik Davies has this sexy sort of gritty hardboiled voice that just kept me absolutely enthralled. He was absolutely perfect for the story.
Overall:
I highly recommend this, especially in audio!
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I remember you saying how good this was on audio — that’s how I’ll read it too.
I’ll have to look for this one! It sounds like the reader is just perfect!
I am so glad you liked this one! I currently have it out from the library and I can’t wait to read it!
I do love the gritty, hardboiled narrators. Tom Stechschulte is like that too. I’m impressed you were able to write anything after 6 months!
Oh man I read this earlier this year on my Kindle and absolutely loved it. To the point that I am considering buying a real copy for my shelves. I thought it was incredibly well-written, and the mystery was really well done.
Here is my review of Poison Study!
http://www.capriciousreader.com/?p=4985
Bad Things Happen sounds pretty good! I feel it’s time I listened to a “sexy sort of gritty hardboiled voice!”
this sounds really good. i’m adding it to my wishlist!
and i finally got my butt in gear and wrote one of my two audiobook reviews that i had left to do. clicky for my review of The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
I just posted my review of Chosen: House Of Night on audio.
(I am not really HTML savvy, so apologize for not linking this correctly):
http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/chosen-house-of-night-by-p-c-cast-and-kristin-cast-audio/
Hello.. here is my review of the audiobook “Boneshaker” by Cherie Priest. http://www.audiobookfans.com/2010/06/review-of-boneshaker/
Thanks!
Here’s my review of Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow (it’s not really much of a review) and my profession of love for audiobooks in general. http://heresmytheory.blogspot.com/2010/06/audiobooks-homer-langley.html
Even though I don’t enjoy audio books, I may have to get this one for the voice. A “sexy sort of gritty hardboiled voice that just kept me absolutely enthralled” sounds like a good deal.
I haven’t read this series, but it sounds like one I’d enjoy, particularly in audio!
I have a review of the audio version of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest on my blog today: http://blog.imbookingit.com/2010/06/24/girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest/
There are a lot of good comments about this book. I’d love to listen to a gritty narrator — very mysterious!
Well the linky seems to be working now but here is my audio book review and opinion piece:
http://smsbookreviews.blogspot.com/2010/06/tell-me-story-3-women-of-wonder-stories.html
Yay! I bought this book in print! I’m, so glad that you enjoyed it enough to review it six months later. That says a lot!
I listened to this audiobook and I loved it too. I agree that the narrator was perfect for the story. I can still hear him saying “If this was a story in Gray Streets…” and “This isn’t a story in Gray Streets.” lol
That sounds interesting, particularly if you remember it fondly enough this much later.
Just in case the linky doesn’t work, here’s a link to my review of The Reader. It has a fantastic audiobook-within-an-audiobook thing going on at one point in the story, but I didn’t talk about it in the review because I don’t like giving too much away.
Thanks for bearing with me, I’ve added everyone’s links to the linky.