Bryan Gruley: The Skeleton Box
I guess I believe in doing my best, trying to be a good guy, be nice to my mom, take care of the people I love. Is that good enough?
One of my favorite things about selling books is watching an author grow not just career-wise, but grow as a writer. Each book of Bryan Gruley’s is better than the last, and this third in his Gus Carpenter series really hits it out of the park.
His first novel, Starvation Lake, established Gruley’s character. Gus has come back to Starvation Lake from a big time Detroit paper to run the tiny Pilot. The balance of kinship, friendship, and community ties and history are finely drawn in the first two novels (the second is The Hanging Tree), but in this third installment Gruley goes to the heart of the matter: family.