The Skeleton Box Anthony and Barry Award winning author Bryan Gruley returns with the third novel in his critically acclaimed Starvation Lake mystery series A series of mysterious break ins is plaguing the small town
Anthony and Barry Award winning author Bryan Gruley returns with the third novel in his critically acclaimed Starvation Lake mystery series.A series of mysterious break ins is plaguing the small town of Starvation Lake Someone is slipping into the homes of elderly people when they re out playing Bingo Oddly, the intruders take nothing, despite evidence that they rifle thAnthony and Barry Award winning author Bryan Gruley returns with the third novel in his critically acclaimed Starvation Lake mystery series.A series of mysterious break ins is plaguing the small town of Starvation Lake Someone is slipping into the homes of elderly people when they re out playing Bingo Oddly, the intruders take nothing, despite evidence that they rifle through personal files Worry turns to panic when a break in leads to the death of a beloved citizen Phyllis Bontrager is found dead in the home of her best friend, Bea Carpenter, mother of Gus Carpenter Bea, suffering from worsening dementia and under the influence of sleeping pills, remembers little of the break in Her son, editor of the local newspaper, must pursue a terrible story the death of a woman he has known all his life, who also happens to be the mother of his ex girlfriend, Darlene With the help of Luke Whistler, an ex Detroit Free Press reporter who came north looking for slower days and some old fashioned newspaper work, Gus sets out to uncover the truth behind Mrs B s death and the Bingo Night Break Ins What he doesn t know is that Whistler has his own agenda, and the secrets he s determined to unearth involving the long ago killing of a nun could forever change Gus s perceptions about Starvation Lake and even his own family.
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Bryan Gruley
Bryan Gruley is the critically acclaimed author of Starvation Lake A Mystery, The Hanging Tree, and the fortchoming sequel, The Skeleton Box.The Hanging Tree is nominated for Anthony and Barry Awards to be awarded in September at the Bouchercon mystery thriller convention Writer director John Gray has optioned the book for a feature film.Starvation Lake, now in its eleventh printing, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America, and won the Anthony, Barry, and Strand Awards Reviewers have favorably compared Bryan to novelist Dennis Lehane.Secretly, though, Bryan would love to be compared favorably to Detroit Red Wings stars Johan Franzen and Pavel Datsyuk He s been playing hockey since he was a boy growing up in Detroit, and still plays regularly at Johnny s Ice House in Chicago.Hockey plays a big role in the life of the fictional town of Starvation Lake, as do two of Bryan s other passions, northern Michigan and newspapers.He loves to visit his Dad s cottage on Big Twin Lake in Michigan s northern lower peninsula a few miles from the real Starvation Lake When he s not skating or spending time with his wife Pam and their three kids, he s a reporter at large for Bloomberg Businessweek, after spending nearly 16 years as a reporter, editor and Chicago Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal.After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1979, Bryan worked for newspapers in Brighton, Howell, Kalamazoo and Detroit, Michigan, before joining the Journal s Washington Bureau in 1995 He was won numerous awards for his writing and reporting He wrote one of the front page stories about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that won the Journal a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News War Stories, his November 25, 2003, tale about a black World War II lieutenant who saved a young Holocaust victim, was an alternate finalist in the Pulitzer feature writing category.He lives in Chicago with his wife, Pam They have three grown children, Joel, Kaitlin and Danielle.