Bryan Gruley (born November 1957) is an American writer. He has been nominated for the "first novel" Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Gruley is currently a reporter for Bloomberg News, writing long form features for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. He worked more than 15 years for The Wall Street Journal including seven years as Chicago bureau chief. With the Journal, he also helped cover breaking news including the September 11 World Trade Center attack, and shared in the staff's Pulitzer Prize for that work, which cited "its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attack on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future." Gruley's first novel, Starvation Lake: a mystery, was published in 2009 as a trade paperback original by the Touchstone Books imprint of Simon & Schuster. It is set in the fictional town of Starvation Lake, based on Bellaire, the seat of Antrim County, Michigan. The real Starvation Lake is a lake in the next county, but the fictional town is on the lake, and the novel begins when the snowmobile of a long-missing youth hockey coach "washes up on the icy shores". Two sequels have followed in the so-called Starvation Lake series, The Hanging Tree (2010) and The Skeleton Box (2012). As of May 2013 Gruley is working on a new novel set in a different town with different characters.
My Opinion: Was introduced to this author in my book club and greatly enjoyed "Starvation Lake". I think I also read "The Hanging Tree" and enjoyed it as well. I recommend him to you.
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Starvation Lake (Simon & Schuster, 2009). X
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Bleak Harbor: A Novel, Thomas & Mercer, 2018 [8]
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