...[an] ingenious new thriller ... Koryta’s plotting is sure-footed, and the secrets he discloses, one by one, at the novel’s end are both surprising and plausible. My main reservation about “How It Happened” is the massive amount of violence inflicted on Rob, from which he bounces back too readily...the savagery and Rob’s amazing recoveries seem out of place in a novel that trades so briskly in finesse ... a book the reader won’t soon forget.
Koryta’s latest blends a swiftly moving, complex plot with well-drawn, achingly empathetic characters ... However, the mystery itself feels unnecessarily convoluted at times.
With this searing look at an investigator’s obsessive efforts to close a case that has reawakened childhood demons, bestseller Koryta (Rise the Dark) has produced his most powerful novel in years.
This book may not be as ambitious as his best efforts (including Rise the Dark, 2016), but it is flawless, unpredictable storytelling streaked with his usual dark undercurrents. Crime fiction doesn't get any more enjoyable.
This spring Koryta published his 13th novel, How It Happened a Maine-set tale of two missing bodies, the opioid epidemic in a coastal town and an FBI agent who can’t get over his instinct that a confession no one else believes is true … Excellent mystery-suspense novel. Page turner. Perfect summer reading.
