Okay, so Gruley (according to my info) is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. I knew that. Starting this book I expected the narrative to be rather journalistic – and by that I mean stuffy – and to have to make the usual first book but I’ll keep reading excuses at the end. Not so with this author.

This novel is set in Northern Michigan against hockey flashback and current action. I don’t want to call it a comfortable read because that implies an emptiness of plot, it’s not – it’s beautifully plotted and logically progresses to an ending which certainly shocked me. I would suggest that anyone would like this book but ESPECIALLY if you like rural mystery.