Starvation Lake: A Mystery, Paperback

Awards🏆
Finalist (2009) - Great Lakes Book Awards - (Fiction)
Winner (2010) - Anthony Awards - (Paperback Original)
Nominee (2010) - Anthony Awards - (First Novel)

Contributor(s):

• Author: Bryan Gruley

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.
 
Review citations

• Publishers Weekly / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 43 - 01/19/2009
• Publishers Weekly / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 43 - 01/19/2009
• Publishers Weekly / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 43 - 01/19/2009
• Publishers Weekly / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 43 - 01/19/2009
• Publishers Weekly / Highly Recommended - pg. 43 - 01/19/2009
• Booklist / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 33 - 02/01/2009
• Booklist / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 33 - 02/01/2009
• Booklist / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 33 - 02/01/2009
• Booklist / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 33 - 02/01/2009
• Booklist / Highly Recommended - pg. 33 - 02/01/2009
• Kirkus Reviews - 02/01/2009
• Library Journal / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 56 - 03/01/2009
• Library Journal / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 56 - 03/01/2009
• Library Journal / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 56 - 03/01/2009
• Library Journal / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 56 - 03/01/2009
• Library Journal / Highly Recommended - pg. 56 - 03/01/2009
• LJ Best Books of Year - pg. 50 - 12/15/2009