Starvation Lake Mystery
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Do you really want to know what's inside the skeleton box? Sometimes the truth is better off dead and buried.
Mysterious break-ins are plaguing the small town of Starvation Lake. While elderly residents enjoy their weekly bingo night, someone is rifling through their possessions. Though nothing is ever taken, the 'Bingo Night Burglaries' leave everyone uneasy.
Then a break-in escalates to murder, and Gus Carpenter, editor of the local paper, is thrown into the most difficult story of his life. Not only is the victim his ex-girlfriend's mother, but her body was found in the home of his own mother, Bea, whose dementia is tightening its grip. When the story leads him towards a box his mother has kept secret for years, Gus has no idea that its contents could forever change his perception of Starvation Lake, his family, and the value of the truth.
The Anthony and Barry Award winning third novel in Bryan Gruley's gripping Starvation Lake series.
But in such a small town it's impossible to be an impartial investigator--Gracie was Gus's second cousin; Darlene's best friend; and the lover of Gus's oldest pal, Soupy Campbell. Yet with all the bad blood between Gus and Gracie over the years, Gus is easily distracted by other problems. His employer is trying to push him out, the locals are annoyed that his stories have halted construction on a new hockey rink, and Darlene's estranged husband has returned to reclaim his wife.
When Gus tries to retrace Gracie's steps to discover what happened to her in the eighteen years she was away from Starvation Lake, he's forced to return to Detroit, the scene of his humiliating past. And though he's determined to find out what drove Gracie back home, Gus is unprepared for the terrible secrets he uncovers.
The second book in Bryan Gruley's irresistible Starvation Lake series, The Hanging Tree is a compelling story about family and friendship, sex and violence, and the failure of love to make everything right.
A lakeside town in the depths of Michigan must face its darkest secrets . . .
In the dead of a Michigan winter, the small town of Starvation Lake is shaken by what washes up on the lake's edge one night: pieces of the snowmobile which disappeared into the murky depths years ago, along with the town's legendary hockey coach. But everybody knows this accident happened on another lake, five miles away. As rumours start to fly, the evidence points one way: murder.
To Gus Carpenter, editor of the local paper and long-serving victim of the town's hostility for a youthful mistake, this is a double-edged sword. He has the chance to prove himself as a reporter, but the deeper he digs the closer he comes to some shadowy gaps in the town's past which are hiding some disturbing secrets. Secrets which those closest to him will kill to keep hidden.
The first novel in Bryan Gruley's award-winning Starvation Lake series.