Review: How It Happened

How It Happened by Michael Koryta
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This story opens up with Kimberly confessing to FBI agent rob barrett in her participation in a double murder of Jackie pelletier and ian Kelly who went missing and their bodies have never been located. she give exacte details and even names the killer, local respected caretaker Mathias Burke. she claims mathias and her friend cassie were all part of what happened. only problem.... Cass is dead of an overdose and Kimmie is a known drug addict, with multiple arrests and lies.

Barrett believes Kimberly's story even after they go to the supposed location of the bodies and none were located.

We do find out later that Barret had spent summer up in Port Hope visiting his ill tempered grandfather where he had run ins with mathias burke that did not go so well when he was younger.

Things do not go as planned and the attempts to dig up evidence to corroborate her allegations sends barrett off the investigation and relocated to a different state.

but he still cant let things go and after receiving calls from one of the parents of the girl he resumes his investigation. Howard, Jackie pelletier's father wants answered and pleads with barret to help him figure out what happened to his little girl.

An unpredictable story with many strange twists and turns. Loved Barrett, who puts everything on the line to prove his belief inKimberly is not wrong. A crime that harkens back to an old nemesis of Barretts from those long ago summers. A crime that will tie into other deaths that are perpetuated in Maine and across the country. He is determined to prove his theory about the murders of these two young people, who had been in love, with their whole future ahead of him. He is the rare lawman who cares about the victim, not just the solving case.

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