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Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Harlan Coben meets early Dennis Lehane in this "smashing debut thriller" (Chicago Tribune) , set in a small northern Michigan town by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.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.



About the Author

Bryan Gruley

Bryan Gruley is the Amazon Charts bestselling and award-winning author of the forthcoming PURGATORY BAY, due out January 14, 2020. It's the tale of a young woman who has set upon a diabolical vendetta against people she holds responsible for murdering her family. Previously, Gruley wrote the critically acclaimed BLEAK HARBOR, about the kidnapping of an autistic teenage boy. His Starvation Lake trilogy, including Edgar finalist STARVATION LAKE, THE HANGING TREE, and THE SKELETON BOX, won multiple awards. When he's not making stuff up, he's a staff reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. The former Chicago bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal shared in the Pulitzer Prize given to the Wall Street Journal in 2002 for coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks. A graduate of Notre Dame, avid hockey player and amateur musician, he currently lives with his wife, Pam, in Chicago.



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