Book description
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.
Bryan Gruley is the critically acclaimed author of three novels.
Starvation Lake
was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and The
Hanging Tree
was Kirkus Reviews' Best Mystery of 2010. Growing up, Bryan spent many
weekends at his family cottage on Big Twin Lake in Michigan - not far
from the real Starvation Lake. He is now a reporter-at-large for
Bloomberg News
, after nearly sixteen years with The Wall Street Journal
, where he shared in the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the
September 11 terrorist attacks. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Pam.
They have three grown children.
