Bad Things Happen Characters

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What would you expect within the first 3 chapters of a book? Some characterization, plot set up? Well in Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan within the first three chapters the main character helps his friend bury body and he's in an affair with his friends wife. Way to start a book right? Harry dolan is most famous for his david loogan series which includes Bad Things Happen, Very Bad Men, and The Lost Girl. These books follow the main character David Loogan his uneventful yet eventful life. He lives a fairly mediocre life, but he is surrounded by murder mysteries and affairs that flair up with him and some important people. Bad Things Happen starts out with David loogan shopping for some supplies, to any one these would be normal gardening

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