A pacy, intelligent crime debut - Raymond Chandler meets the Coen brothers with shades of Harlan Coben. In a small sleepy town in Michigan, David Loogan is leading a new and quietly anonymous life. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, the melancholy publisher of the mystery magazine Gray Streets - and into an affair with Laura, Tom's sleek blonde wife. When Tom offers him a job as an editor, Loogan sees no harm in accepting. What he doesn't realise that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: Plans go wrong. Bad things happen. People die.