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    The Hanging Tree
    The Hanging Tree
    The Hanging Tree
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Hanging Tree

    Written by Bryan Gruley

    Narrated by Rich Orlow

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    About this audiobook

    Author Bryan Gruley's The Hanging Tree is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his Edgar Award-nominated debut, Starvation Lake. After an 18-year absence, Gracie McBride returns to Starvation Lake and apparently commits suicide. But newspaper editor Gus Carpenter smells a rat.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 16, 2011
    ISBN9781449867652
    The Hanging Tree
    Author

    Bryan Gruley

    Bryan Gruley is the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Bleak Harbor and the award-winning Starvation Lake trilogy of novels. He is also a lifelong journalist who is proud to have shared in the Pulitzer Prize awarded to the staff of the Wall Street Journal for their coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Gruley lives in Chicago with his wife, Pam. You can learn more by visiting his website at www.bryangruley.com.

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    • 3/5
      Though written well, not as good as "Starvation Lake." Plot lags at times and the reason for the hanging is too odd to accept.
    • 4/5
      This is the second installment in the Starvation Lake mysteries, and it's even better than the first. Small town newspaperman Gus Carpenter is back and once again investigating something the townsfolk would rather he not. Gracie McBride, a malcontent for most of her rough youth, had left Starvation Lake years ago, but then came back, a quiet loner who lived on the fringes of the local community. Then one cold morning after a terrible snow storm, she was found hanging from what the locals call "The Shoe Tree"--a huge tree that decades of teenagers have been hanging tied together shoes to announce their 'coupledom'. Local law enforcement call it a suicide, but things just don't add up for Gus. There are no cars or car tracks in the deep snow. No ladder to climb the tree with. And no reason other than a rejection letter from an employer. Gus risks everything, including his life, to dig into the mystery, and uncovers a far bigger and deeply sinister story that involves not only Gracie but the entire town and it's economic survival. Once again Gruley keeps the pace fast and the clues coming until the surprising end. Though it's set in mounds of Michigan snow, this is one hot summer read.
    • 4/5
      As "The Hanging Tree," book two in Bryan Gruley's Starvation Lake series, opens, not much has changed for small town reporter Gus Carpenter. He is still reporting local politics, sports and deaths for his twice-a-week newspaper and playing in a midnight hockey league at the local rink. When, in book one of the series, he returned to Starvation Lake after disgracing himself in Detroit, Gus moved in with his mother - he still lives there. And to complete the circle of his life, Gus is romantically involved again with Darlene, a woman he has loved since they both were children and she was his cousin Gracie's best friend. Gus Carpenter might work for a smalltime newspaper in remote northern Michigan, but he still considers himself a good investigative journalist. Sensing that something is not right about the new hockey rink being donated to Starvation Lake, he decides to look into the donor's finances. In the process, he manages to infuriate the millionaire benefactor and most of the paper's readers and advertisers. That is enough to make his life in hockey-crazy Starvation Lake miserable, but when his cousin is found hanging from the town's "shoe tree," an apparent suicide, things will get much worse for Gus. His instincts tell him that Gracie's death is a case of murder, not suicide, and Gus vows to learn the truth about what happened on the night she died. His investigation brings him back to Detroit where he digs into the life Gracie lived in the city before she returned to Starvation Lake only to be seen there, by those who thought they knew her best, as little more than a failure and a drunk. Because "The Hanging Tree" is a character-driven story with an intricate backstory, readers who begin the Starvation Lake series here will not short-change themselves. The book is filled with well developed, but less than perfect, characters that move the story along at a nice pace but Gruley offers more. Along the way, he gives his readers a taste of what life might be like in those little towns up north where men in their thirties and forties schedule their lives around the games they play in midnight hockey leagues. Even non-hockey fans (like me) will appreciate Gruley's game descriptions and insights into the minds of men willing to risk major injury on the ice at the advanced age of 40 or so. My only quarrel with the book is its ending, a solution to its central mystery I found to be more confusing than convincing. Perhaps, female readers will better understand the ending, but it did not work well for me. Rated at: 4.0
    • 5/5
      Augustus "Gus" Carpenter, tiny North Michigan town local newspaper editor investigates the apparent hanging suicide of local prodigal daughter. Not only is she his second cousin, but also his girlfriend's best friend and his best friend's girlfriend, so of course everyone's suspicious she didn't really hang herself. With no true suicide note he begins a local investigation the leads him back to his not so distant past in Detroit, Michigan.This is the second in the series by Gruley and very good. It seems he fixed the problems found in the earlier book. It interesting how he managed to create another suspicious death in such a small fictitious town like Starvation Lake. The characters are well developed but still leave much potential for future series. The plot is great with a good twist at the end. Although I knew who did it about mid way, I still didn't know the motive and the plot developed this quite nicely.