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born

November 09, 1957 in Detroit, The United States

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website

http://www.bryangruley.com

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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January 2009

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Bryan Gruley is the critically acclaimed author of Starvation Lake: A Mystery, The Hanging Tree, and the fortchoming sequel, The Skeleton Box.

The Hanging Tree is nominated for Anthony and Barry Awards to be awarded in September at the Bouchercon mystery/thriller convention. Writer/director John Gray has optioned the book for a feature film.

Starvation Lake, now in its eleventh printing, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America, and won the Anthony, Barry, and Strand Awards. Reviewers have favorably compared Bryan to novelist Dennis Lehane.

Secretly, though, Bryan would love to be compared favorably to Detroit Red Wings stars Johan Franzen and Pavel Datsyuk. He’s been playing hockey since he was a...more Bryan Gruley is the critically acclaimed author of Starvation Lake: A Mystery, The Hanging Tree, and the fortchoming sequel, The Skeleton Box.

The Hanging Tree is nominated for Anthony and Barry Awards to be awarded in September at the Bouchercon mystery/thriller convention. Writer/director John Gray has optioned the book for a feature film.

Starvation Lake, now in its eleventh printing, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America, and won the Anthony, Barry, and Strand Awards. Reviewers have favorably compared Bryan to novelist Dennis Lehane.

Secretly, though, Bryan would love to be compared favorably to Detroit Red Wings stars Johan Franzen and Pavel Datsyuk. He’s been playing hockey since he was a boy growing up in Detroit, and still plays regularly at Johnny’s Ice House in Chicago.

Hockey plays a big role in the life of the fictional town of Starvation Lake, as do two of Bryan’s other passions, northern Michigan and newspapers.

He loves to visit his Dad’s cottage on Big Twin Lake in Michigan’s northern lower peninsula—a few miles from the real Starvation Lake. When he’s not skating or spending time with his wife Pam and their three kids, he’s a reporter at large for Bloomberg Businessweek, after spending nearly 16 years as a reporter, editor and Chicago Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal.

After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1979, Bryan worked for newspapers in Brighton, Howell, Kalamazoo and Detroit, Michigan, before joining the Journal’s Washington Bureau in 1995.

He was won numerous awards for his writing and reporting. He wrote one of the front-page stories about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that won the Journal a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. “War Stories,” his November 25, 2003, tale about a black World War II lieutenant who saved a young Holocaust victim, was an alternate finalist in the Pulitzer feature writing category.

He lives in Chicago with his wife, Pam. They have three grown children, Joel, Kaitlin and Danielle.

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On Ponds and Beer Tents

Life is good when you can skate into the beer tent.

The tent sits on a frozen lake ringed by snow-covered pines in the tiny town of Plaster Rock in New Brunswick, Canada. Each February, a dozen of us travel hundreds of miles there to skate in the World Pond Hockey Championship.

I’ve been playing hockey for more than forty years, since my dad taught me to skate on the outdoor rink at RougePark in... read more »

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Books by Bryan Gruley

Average rating: 3.64 · 1,205 ratings · 360 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Starvation Lake 3.60 avg rating — 827 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Hanging Tree 3.71 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Skeleton Box: A Starvation Lake Mystery 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Paper Losses: A Modern Epic of Greed and Betrayal at America's Two Largest Newspaper Companies 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Bryan Gruley's Starvation Lake Mystery Series 2-Book Boxed Set: Starvation Lake and The Hanging Tree 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Which of these books would you like to have for the NL Ladies' Choice Group Read for Feburary?

Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

7 votes, 19.4%

Nefertiti by Michelle Moran

6 votes, 16.7%

Drop Dead Gorgeous by Heather Graham

5 votes, 13.9%

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

4 votes, 11.1%

The Beach House by James Patterson

4 votes, 11.1%

Twilight Whispers by Barbara Delinsky

3 votes, 8.3%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

3 votes, 8.3%

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

2 votes, 5.6%

Indefensible by Pamela Callow

1 vote, 2.8%

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant

1 vote, 2.8%

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