Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

Product Description
In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake -- the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation's 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 town's past and the gnawing suspicion that those holes may conceal some dark and disturbing secrets; secrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep.

My thoughts
Did you ever start reading a book and didn’t want to put it down, even if it made you late for work? “Starvation Lake” by Bryan Gruley did that to me. I didn’t know what to expect when I began reading it, but once I started and got involved in the life of Gus and the small town newspaper the Pilot, I was taken in. He creates characters with such intensity that you get to know them inside and out. The flashbacks to Gus’ adolescent hockey games made me care for him more. As the story develops, I couldn’t help wonder where it where and what it was leading to. Mr. Gruley certainly knows how to write great mysteries.