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Bryan Gruley

In small towns, you think you know people. You don't.

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    • Purgatory Bay
    • Bleak Harbor
    • Starvation Lake
    • The Hanging Tree
    • The Skeleton Box
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LINKS FROM MY BIO

Where I play hockey: johnnysicehouse.com

For a Son, a song for a friend: youtube.com/watch?v=39nA-8tafX8

My favorite hockey team: redwings.nhl.com

NONFICTION WORK

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About Bryan

Bryan Gruley is the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of the forthcoming Purgatory Bay, which Michael Connelly says is “impossible to put down.” Purgatory Bay is set in the same fictional Michigan town as Gruley’s previous novel, Bleak Harbor,which Gillian Flynn called “an electric bolt of suspense.” Purgatory Bay will release January 14, 2020, and is available now for pre-order.

Gruley also wrote the Starvation Lake trilogy: Starvation Lake, The Hanging Tree, and The Skeleton Box. Gruley’s debut, Starvation Lake, was an Edgar Finalist and won Anthony, Barry, and Strand awards. The Hanging Tree was a #1 Indie Next pick, a Michigan Notable Book, and a Kirkus Best Mystery of 2010. Reviewers have compared him favorably to novelists Dennis Lehane and Richard Russo.

When he’s not making things up, Gruley writes long-form features on a wide variety of topics as a staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. A lifelong journalist, Gruley shared in The Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks and has won numerous other awards for his writing and reporting. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Pam, and enjoys playing ice hockey and guitar.

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Bryan is represented by Meg Ruley of the Jane Rotrosen Agency.

For publicity inquiries, contact Dana Kaye at Kaye Publicity or Dennelle Catlett of Thomas and Mercer.

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