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...

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...

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...

It’s Impossible to Put Down

London’s Daily Mail chimes in on HOW IT HAPPENED, saying: “Koryta just keeps getting better… This beautifully drawn story, with captivating characters, is impossible to put down.” Read the...

Summer’s Best Page Turner

The Chicago Tribune says HOW IT HAPPENED “may be the summer’s best page-turner” adding: “The book casts its spell in revealing the whys and wherefores of the killings. Koryta, who has introduced supernatural elements into several novels, plays...

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...