The man who calls himself David Loogan is leading a quiet, anonymous
life in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He's hoping to escape
a violent past he would rather forget. But his solitude is broken when
he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll,
the publisher of the mystery 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 realize is
that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula:
Plans go wrong. Bad things happen. People die.

Elizabeth Waishkey is a single mother raising a fifteen-year-old
daughter. She's also the most talented detective in the Ann Arbor
Police Department. But when Tom Kristoll turns up dead, she doesn'nt
know quite what to make of David Loogan. Is he a killer, or an ally
who might help her find the truth? Loogan, for his part, would like
to trust her, but he has his own agenda. He suspects his friend's
death is part of a much larger puzzle, and he's not going to wait
for someone else to put the pieces together.

As Loogan and Elizabeth navigate their way through the Kristolls'
world, they find no shortage of people with motives for murder, from
a young graduate student obsessed with Laura Kristoll to a trio of
bestselling writers, all of them with secrets they don't want
uncovered. But as the deaths start mounting up - some of them echoing
stories published in Gray Streets - Loogan begins to look more and
more like the most promising suspect. Soon it becomes clear that only
Elizabeth can find the path to solving both the murders and the
mystery of Loogan himself. But by the time she unravels the twisted
skein, Loogan may be indicted for murder - or, more likely, become
the next victim.

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