An FBI investigator must uncover the secrets of his hometown to solve
a double murder in this twisty "page turner" that's "perfect summer
reading" (Stephen King).
"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?"
Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother,
and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine
community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the
brutal murders of Jackie Pelletier and Ian Kelly, the daughter of a
well-known local family and her sweetheart, the locals have little
reason to believe her story.
Not Rob Barrett, the FBI investigator and interrogator specializing in
telling a true confession from a falsehood. He's been circling Kimberly
and her conspirators for months, waiting for the right avenue to the
truth, and has finally found it. He knows, as strongly as he's known
anything, that Kimberly's story -- a grisly, harrowing story of a hit
and run fueled by dope and cheap beer that becomes a brutal stabbing in
cold blood -- is how it happened. But one thing remains elusive: where
are Jackie and Ian's bodies?
After Barrett stakes his name and reputation on the truth of Kimberly's
confession, only to have the bodies turn up 200 miles from where she
said they'd be, shot in the back and covered in a different suspect's
DNA, the case is quickly closed and Barrett forcibly reassigned. But for
Howard Pelletier, the tragedy of his daughter's murder cannot be so
tidily swept away. And for Barrett, whose career may already be over,
the chance to help a grieving father may be the only one he has left.
How it Happened is a frightening, tension-filled ride into the dark
heart of rural America from a writer Stephen King has called "a master"
and the New York Times has deemed "impossible to resist."
