Starvation Lake: A Mystery
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In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, tiny town of Starvation Lake — the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation’s legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn’s manufacturing 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 huge 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 ex- coach. But even more unsettling to Gus are the holes in the town’s past and the gnawing suspicion that persons holes may hide some dark and disturbing secrets secrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep.
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This leader has no clue what goes on in a courtroom or a products liability lawsuit and his dumber than dumb subplot is not only implausible, it has no ending. The protagonist/narrator is a newspaper reporter who claims that his tales, emanating from a truck manufacturer’s VIPs’ voicemails that he slyly obtained, were cited during the examination in a gas tank explosion personal injury examination that resulted in a huge multi million dollar punitive award against the truckmaker in favor of the family tree of a young man who burned to death in a two-vehicle manufacturing accident. Sure…juries choose lawsuits on newspaper hearsay articles rather than admissible evidence every day. Does this leader really reflect fiction readers are that stupid? Then, well after the verdict, the truck manufacturer facts out that the reporter, with the aid of a whistleblower, hacked into their voicemails where he obtained the informataion used in the articles that caused their courtroom defeat and threatens the employer of the reporter, a huge city newspaper, with theft lawsuits. Just what the manufacturer would want…more publicity about their product that kills people. The newspaper caves in to the threats even though the tales they published were right. They make an apology in print telling the world that the right tales previously published were really fake. Yeah, that happens every day. It gets even dumber. The manufacturer then uses the apology to appeal the verdict and the family tree, apprehensive that they might be facing a re-examination, agrees to settle the case for significantly less than the award, donating all of the money to aproject that will make sure similar accidents never take place again. Are you laughing out loud yet? But before the manufacturer will withdraw the appeal and pay, it wants the reporter to give up the identity of his whistleblower source. They threaten to file criminal complaints against him for the hackjob if he does not. That leads to State police looking for and chasing the reporter from Michigan to Virginia and back like he is a serial killer on the loose. But this manhunt is about capturing a treacherous reporter for…. hacking emails? Wow, doesn’t that make for exciting real life drama? And lawyers involved in a completely different class action lawsuit against the manufacturer threaten to file papers objecting to the settlement because the officially authorized fee is too tiny. And how would they have standing to do that? This leader does not care. Then suddenly the subplot that runs through the whole book just up and disappears in thin air because a local judge signs some unidentified papers building it hard for pursuing State police to effectuate the reporter’s arrest. After all these prosecution threats and a cross country manhunt, the truck manufacturer just gives up the chase and quits the prosecution of the reporter. As for the main plot…just a lot of endless and mindless junk about ex-hockey players and coaches hiding a secret, that once revealed brings absolutely nothing new or orginal to the table. There isn’t a lick of suspense in this book. But why would you need suspense or thrills in a mystery? You even have a prologue that is never revisited…just left to dry up and die a lonely death. I have no thought how these pages ever got published, but this is no spine in the caps of the leader, his agent, the editors or the publishing company. Just a disaster from first page to last page with way too much, nearly unreadably dull, ice hockey game narrative, that proves why nobody watches that sport on television.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
In Starvation Lake, Michigan everyone is shook up when pieces of a snowmobile wash ashore at Lake Walleye. Sheriff Dingus Aho puts a close hold on the investigation, but rumors spread that the snowmobile is the one driven by legendary peewee ice hockey coach Jack Blackburn who died ten years while riding one at Starvation Lake.
Thirty-four years ancient Gus Carpenter, the editor of the local paper Pilot, and his ace reporter Joanne McCarthy makes inquires into the current case, which leads back to what happened to the coach in 1998. Their investigation leads to a decade earlier when Gus as a goalie let in the winning shot in the State Championship and back to the 1970sd when Coach worked with kids in Canada. But, Gus has officially authorized issues involving an unidentified source back when he worked in Detroit that has him to some extent distracted as he knows the family tree oriented Pilot may be his last stop on the way back down the same ladder he had climbed up.
Although there are too many references to the lost hockey game that allegedly ruined the town especially by an odious participant turned builder who belongs in the penalty box, fans of In Starvation Lake, Michigan everyone is shook up when pieces of a snowmobile wash ashore at Lake Walleye. Sheriff Dingus Aho puts a close hold on the investigation, but rumors spread that the snowmobile is the one driven by legendary peewee ice hockey coach Jack Blackburn who died ten years while riding one at Starvation Lake.
Thirty-four years ancient Gus Carpenter, the editor of the local paper Pilot, and his ace reporter Joanne McCarthy makes inquires into the current case, which leads back to what happened to the coach in 1998. Their investigation leads to a decade earlier when Gus as a goalie let in the winning shot in the State Championship and back to the 1970sd when Coach worked with kids in Canada. But, Gus has officially authorized issues involving an unidentified source back when he worked in Detroit that has him to some extent distracted as he knows the family tree oriented Pilot may be his last stop on the way back down the same ladder he had climbed up.
Although there are too many references to the lost hockey game that allegedly ruined the town especially by an odious participant turned builder who belongs in the penalty box, fans of sports mysteries will delight in this fun investigative thriller. The tale line is driven by the townsfolk as everyone seems to have secrets even the hero’s widow mom. Gus is a terrific lead character who holds his rage in check as no one will let him forget the goal that changed Lake Salvation. Joanne reminds him of himself when he was on the way up until he learned at the Detroit Times how in bed the media and the corporations are. Bryan Gruley provides a winning goal that places the tiny-town hockey atmosphere of Mystery, Alaska inside a Michigan mystery.
Harriet Klausneries will delight in this fun investigative thriller. The tale line is driven by the townsfolk as everyone seems to have secrets even the hero’s widow mom. Gus is a terrific lead character who holds his rage in check as no one will let him forget the goal that changed Lake Salvation. Joanne reminds him of himself when he was on the way up until he learned at the Detroit Times how in bed the media and the corporations are. Bryan Gruley provides a winning goal that places the tiny-town hockey atmosphere of Mystery, Alaska inside a Michigan mystery.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Debut novelist Bryan Gruley plays against the widely held opinion that the tiny towns of Midwestern America are populated by excellent-hearted, hard-effective folks who will go the extra mile to help a national. In Gruley’s town of Starvation Lake, Michigan, nothing could be further from the truth. Gus Carpenter, editor of the town’s newspaper, gradually finds out what is really afoot in his home town after the snowmobile of a long dead youth hockey coach turns up in the incorrect lake, thus reopening the matter of the man’s death and the life he lived before.
Leader Gruley deftly builds his yarn with the dropping of one veil after another. It’s a slow tease of a tale line that works effectively as a intricate network of relationships of the book’s characters is revealed. Everyone in town, it seems, has something pretty startling to hide–corruption–criminal and moral–abounds. Duplicity and larceny are poster twins for the place. The tale fascinatingly (for this reader at least) rests on a running description of tiny-town ice hockey that the leader clearly knows a fantastic deal about.
This is a first-rate tale that builds in tension and delivers a satisfying conclusion.
PS – Despite the terrible rap in “Starvation Lake,” I reflect the traditional consensus of the Midwest’s essential civilized goodness holds right.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
If I wrote this book, it never would have been published. I guess when you are a bureau chief for a major newspaper, you have enough clout and friends to get it done.
I read Michael Connelly, CJ Box, and, most notably, Harlan Coben, so when I noticed blurbs from all the authors on the take in praising this book, I thought, “Can’t miss!” Boy was I misled.
This book has none of the police procedural expertise of a Michael Connelly book. It has none of the sense of place of a CJ Box novel, and certainly lacks the twists and suspense of a Harlan Coben novel. Did these guys owe this guy a huge favor?
Every event in this book can be forseen like a loud goods train impact down on you. The mystery is thin and too simple to figure out. The main characters’ back tale is nothing more than filler.
All the characters are so flawed, including the lead character, that I failed to connect with any of them.
I gave it two stars because, after all, I did end it, and the hockey scenes were a nice diversion from a weak plot.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Fantastic debut. He has made a group of unforgettable characters. I really look forwards any new books by Gruley.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5