Things Like That Don't Happen Here: A Novel

THINGS LIKE THAT DON’T HAPPEN HERE is a tale of lifelong love, serial murder, and how a small town copes with the unexpected: Nicholas Sparks meets Dennis Lehane in a quiet Richard Russo village. This literary thriller comprises 94,000 words.

Harvard freshman BILLY JONES returns to sleepy Memphis, Maine, for what he expects will be his final summer at home. Egged on by his mischievous best friend CHARLIE ROBICHAUD, Billy takes an uncharacteristic risk in pursuing GINNY DOOGAN, the girl he has loved from afar since kindergarten. Soon he discovers they have a stronger bond than he could ever have imagined. Within days, however, Billy’s world turns upside down when he and his co-workers find the dismembered body of a high school classmate along the Penobscot River. When another victim surfaces beneath the town marina three weeks later, Billy sees a thread connecting him to the two fallen men, in a dark secret he long ago chose to forget. Can Billy preserve himself and those he loves when he might be the only one who can halt the bloodshed?

Things Like That Don't Happen Here, coming soon to a query letter near you (for all you agents out there)...

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Flash Fiction and Short Stories

I write a broad range of stories, from a child who murders his imaginary friend to a man who comes alive only while breaking into abandoned buildings.

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