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Starvation Lake

(2009)
(The first book in the Starvation Lake Mystery series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2010 Anthony Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
2010 Anthony Award for Best Paperback original
2010 Barry Award for Best Paperback original
2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (nominee)

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.


Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"A great debut from a major talent." - Harlan Coben


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