Starvation Lake

Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Harlan Coben meets early Dennis Lehane in this smashing debut thriller (Chicago Tribune), set in a small northern Michigan town by a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist.In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lakethe same snowmobile that went down with Starvations legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's 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 big 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 former coach. But even more unsettling to Gus are the holes in the towns past and the gnawing suspicion that those holes may conceal some dark and disturbing secretssecrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep.