Bad Things

Bad Things
Michael Marshall

The new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Straw Men and The Intruders is a heart-stopping tale ofsecrets, lies and our culpability in our own misfortunesOn a beautiful summer's afternoon four-year-old Scott Henderson walked out onto a jetty over a lake in Black Ridge, Washington State. He never came back.John Henderson's world ended that day, but three years later he's still alive. Living a life, of sorts. Getting by. Until one night he receives an email from a stranger who claims to know what happened to his little boy.Against his better judgement Henderson returns to Black Ridge, unleashing a terrifying sequence of events that threatens to destroy what remains of everything he once held dear.Bad things don't just happen to other people - they're waiting round the corner for you too. And when they start to make their way in through the cracks in your life, you won't know until it's far too late…

MICHAEL

MARSHALL

BAD THINGS

For Stephen Jones

Who knows the darkest parts of the woods – and the path from there to the pub.

It is the practice of evil, and hence, in a sense, the inhuman, that is the distinctive mark of the human in the animal kingdom.

Jean Baudrillard

Cool Memories V

Table of Contents

Epigraph (#u73ff176e-a199-5c0d-99f6-4cbac9742ede)

Prologue (#ua0368edb-8274-597c-b748-7a25eae9ec39)

Part 1 (#uf992e46a-e35d-59de-bb2c-5615e25512b8)

Chapter 1 (#u54d7a6b7-6be4-55a9-96e6-ee95b83f3dc4)

Chapter 2 (#u8d7ceb8d-0975-5f2f-b866-28e537679bed)

Chapter 3 (#u9d0f004c-343f-554d-8302-7c0c5bbe7674)

Chapter 4 (#ua472f957-0b93-5d4b-b553-624cbe78236f)

Chapter 5 (#u9e90ed0d-d08f-57b1-bf4c-e42b098e8432)

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Chapter 11 (#u49c02767-7eaa-53bc-b941-50824692a31d)

Chapter 12 (#ude511d32-da39-54b2-bb3d-348f13a3b18b)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)