Bad Things

Name: Bad Things
ISBN: 9780007209989

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Three years ago, lawyer John Henderson watched his four-year-old son tumble from a jetty into the lake outside their Washington home.

In a terrible instant, a life all too brief and innocent ended.

But it wasn't drowning, the fall, or even some previously.

First published: 2009
Publishers: HarperCollins Publishers
Subjects: Fiction·Mystery·Detective·General·Missing persons·Fiction
Language: English

So after a week filled with way too many doctor appointments and precious reading opportunity I decided to try this story based strictly off the title as the movie Very Bad Things with Christian Slater and Cameron Diaz is one of my all time favorite movies involving the trippy and sick ways a night gone wrong proved too much for all concerned--I kinda thought this story would be full of twists and turns and suspense and all that but never really got that..The story starts off with the unexplained death/murder of a four year old and the heartbreak and tragic circumstances that pull a loving family apart and end with a divorce and the father working as a waiter trying to forget the past..

Creepy!.

Michael Marshall's "Bad Things" starts off with a bang: a four-year-old child apparently dies of fright while his parents watch. The action then flashes forward three years or so, with the parents divorced and living in different states.

About Michael Marshall

A pseudonym used by Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith (who dropped the "Smith" to write The Straw Men) lives in north London with his wife Paula, and is currently working on screenplays and his next book, while providing two cats with somewhere warm and comfortable to sit.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. (1) Michael Marshall - Religion/Spirituality(2) Michael Marshall - Acting(3) Michael Marshall - Fishing/Geography(4) Michael Marshall - German Children's Books(5) Michael Marshall - Indonesian Fiction...

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