The Skeleton Box
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- 3,49 €
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- 3,49 €
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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.
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Set in Starvation Lake, Mich., Edgar-finalist Gruley's winning third novel featuring local newspaper editor Gus Carpenter (after 2010's The Hanging Tree) finds him playing goalie for a men's hockey league in his spare time and looking after his mother, who's gradually slipping into dementia. A series of burglaries has the placid community on edge, and the townspeople demand action after an elderly friend of Carpenter's mother is murdered. Assisted by his on-again, off-again police officer girlfriend, Carpenter determines to find the truth, which may reach back to the 50-year-old disappearance of a beautiful young nun. As Carpenter and veteran investigative reporter Luke Whistler venture into unexpected places, it becomes clear that someone is willing to go to any length to keep the past buried. While the small town as a variant of the locked-room mystery has been done before, Gruley injects freshness into a familiar story. 20-city author tour.
