The Hanging Tree by Bryan Gruley

We are back at Starvation Lake, Michigan, in the heart of hockey country with the suspicious death of Grace McBride, second cousin to Gus Carpenter, executive editor of the Pine County Pilot whom we met in Bryan Gruley’s previous book, Starvation Lake.

Gus is now seeing his old girlfriend, Darlene, deputy sheriff, whom he had left behind after high school. While looking for answers in the death of Grace, Gus gets into trouble with the town council and Laird Haskell who wants to build a new hockey rink in Starvation Lake. Haskell, lawyer for the automotive industry and Gus’s old nemesis, handed Gus a humiliating defeat which got Gus fired from a newspaper in Detroit. Back in Starvation Lake, Gus is determined find out if Grace committed suicide or was murdered and if her death was related to the new rink in Starvation.

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