Bryan Gruley

Starvation Lake

1 - Starvation Lake (Mar-2009)
2 - The Hanging Tree (Aug-2010)
3 - The Skeleton Box (Jun-2012)

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  Starvation Lake
  

  • Mar-2009
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  Starvation Lake - 1
  

  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 acc...

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  The Hanging Tree
  

  • Aug-2010
  • / Mystery
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  Starvation Lake - 2
  

  WHEN GRACIE McBRIDE, the wild girl who had left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent suicide shortly after her homecoming, it sends shock waves through her native Starvation Lake. Gus Carpenter, executive editor of the Pine Count...

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  The Skeleton Box
  

  • Jun-2012
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  Starvation Lake - 3
  

  Does Gus Carpenter really want to know what’s inside the skeleton box? In Anthony -- and Barry --Award-winning author Bryan Gruley’s gripping new novel, Gus must decide if the truth is better off dead and buried. Mysterious break-ins are plagu...

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  Bleak Harbor
  

  • Dec-2018
  • / Thriller
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  Their son is gone. Deep down, they think they’re to blame. Summertime in Bleak Harbor means tourists, overpriced restaurants, and the Dragonfly Festival. One day before the much-awaited and equally chaotic celebration, Danny Peters, the youngest...

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  Purgatory Bay
  

  • Jan-2020
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  Twelve years ago, her life was torn apart. Now those who wronged her will pay. Jubilee Rathman is a straight-A student and star soccer goalie destined for Princeton -- until her family is brutally murdered. Twelve years later, she lives in a virtu...

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  Bitterfrost
  

  • Apr-2025
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  The first in a brand-new crime thriller series from Edgar nominee and Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author Bryan Gruley. Feisty defence attorney, Devyn Payne faces off against veteran detective, Garth Klimmek as they work to solve a vicious double homicid...

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Award-Winning Books by Bryan Gruley

The Skeleton Box
2013 Michigan Notable Books -- Notable Book
Starvation Lake
2010 Anthony Award -- Paperback Original