Bryan Gruley

Bryan Gruley is the Amazon Charts bestselling and award-winning author of the forthcoming BITTERFROST, due out April 1, 2025. BITTERFROST tells the tale of Jimmy Baker, a former minor-league hockey player who quit the game after almost killing an opponent in a fight. Thirteen years later, he's the Zamboni driver for an elite amateur team in his hometown of Bitterfrost in northern Michigan--and the prime suspect in a brutal double murder. Gruley is also the author of the Starvation Lake trilogy, including Edgar finalist STARVATION LAKE, THE HANGING TREE, and THE SKELETON BOX. He also wrote two novels set in the fictional Michigan resort town of Bleak Harbor: BLEAK HARBOR and PURGATORY BAY. A journalist for more than 40 years, he shared in the Pulitzer Prize given to the Wall Street Journal for coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks. A graduate of Notre Dame, avid hockey player and amateur musician, he currently lives with his wife, Pam, in northern Michigan.