Starvation Lake
Bryan Gruley
Simon and Schuster
TPB, 370 p., $15.00
ebook $11.99
Kindle,
Nook
Yes, I know this book is a mystery, and this blog is devoted to heroic fantasy and historical adventure. But this is what I've been reading this week, and I wanted to discuss it here. I'd spent the two previous weeks trying to read a science fiction novel (which I'll review at the
other blog in a day or two) and wanted something different to read. It won't be the first mystery I've reviewed here.
I'll be looking at short fantasy fiction the rest of the week.
Anyway, the basic set up is this. One winter night ten years ago a popular youth hockey coach was out snowmobiling with a friend on Starvation Lake when his snowmobile went through a thin spot in the ice, killing him. Neither the body nor the snowmobile were ever recovered. Now the snowmobile has washed up on the beach. There are just two problems. The first is that there's a bullet hole in it. The second is that it's on the beach of an entirely different lake.
