Sunday, August 09, 2009

Pg. 69: Bryan Gruley's "Starvation Lake"

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley.

About the book, from the publisher:
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.
Read an excerpt from Starvation Lake, and learn more about the book and author at Bryan Gruley's website and blog.

The Page 69 Test: Starvation Lake.

--Marshal Zeringue