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While this one may suffer from one too many plotlines as it is somewhat challenging to keep things straight in the middle going, Gruley does nice work with his Michigan setting and the contrast between upstate and down. He also has a gift for creating morally complex characters, particularly ones who make bad decisions for good reasons.
I won this book as part of the First-Reads program on Goodreads. It is the second book in the Starvation Lake series, but I think that you can also read it as a stand alone. I didn't read the first one, and I didn't feel like I was missing anything but I definitely want to pick up the first book in the series though. This was an interesting and fast-paced mystery, with a good cast of characters (even the ones I didn't like), and the author didn't make me cringe when I was reading about hockey (a
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Definitely a page turner! I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning finishing this one! Bryan Gruley has drawn such complex characters and has complicated, meaty mysteries. I can't wait for the next one!
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