Reviews
The NYT Got Goosebumps
Here's a taste of the New York Times' review of HOW IT HAPPENED: “Where are the bodies? That’s the pertinent question posed by Michael Koryta in his cool and cunning novel HOW IT HAPPENED, which is loosely based, he has said, on a murder he covered as a young reporter in Indiana. Perhaps because of the personal angle – or just because Koryta is such a skilled writer – the story feels like the real deal…gives me goose bumps, a credit to Koryta’s descriptive powers.”
Read the full review: https://nyti.ms/2JcJL14
GMA’s Summer Beach Reads
Thanks Good Morning America for picking HOW IT HAPPENED as one of the best beach reads for the summer along with The Immoralists by Chloe Benjamin, The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll, A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza, All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin, Vox by Christina Dalcher, The Glitch by Elisabeth Cohen, and Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris.
See GMA's list: https://gma.abc/2xjIcts
HOW IT HAPPENED Displays First-Rate Style
Bookreporter reviews HOW IT HAPPENED, saying: “Koryta is at the top of his game in HOW IT HAPPENED. His style remains first rate. There’s a description of a Port Hope ne’er-do-well about two-thirds of the way through the book that is only a paragraph long but makes the man in question jump and dance right off the page. That’s top-notch writing, and Koryta, as always, displays his considerable chops throughout the novel.”
Read the review: https://bit.ly/2x6aBTP
It’s Impossible to Put Down
Summer’s Best Page Turner
It Started with a Confession
“Michael Koryta really makes us feel Rob Barrett's emotional wounds, the deep tragedy of the bright young lovers killed as their lives were just starting, and the pain of the families whose hope rested in them. But he just as lovingly describes the unsung victims of the opioid epidemic, whose families mourn them as people, not statistics.”
Read the Raleigh News & Observer review: https://bit.ly/2rIv2Ah