Starvation Lake

A Mystery

By Bryan Gruley
(Touchstone Books, Paperback, 9781416563624, 370pp.)

Publication Date: March 2009

Categories: Suspense, Mystery & Detective - General

Buy online from an indie bookstore
Find an indie bookstore near you

Link to this Book

AskIndies about this Book on Twitter


Selected by Indie Booksellers for the March 2009 Indie Next List
“Small towns love their sports teams as much as they love taking swipes at their local newspaper, but they also love their secrets. A secret lies frozen at the bottom of Starvation Lake, and the ice is starting to melt. Dripping with atmosphere and pitch-perfect dialog, Gruley captures the heart and hardships of small-town life.”
-- Matt Norcross, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey, MI


Description
In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake -- the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation's legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accident happened five miles away on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thing: murder.

Gus Carpenter, editor of the local newspaper, has recently returned to Starvation after a failed attempt to make it big at the "Detroit Times." In his youth, Gus was the goalie who let a state championship get away, crushing Coach's dreams and earning the town's enmity. Now he's investigating the murder of his former coach. But even more unsettling to Gus are the holes in the town's past and the gnawing suspicion that those holes may conceal some dark and disturbing secrets secrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep.