{"product_id":"the-skeleton-boxbooks","title":"The Skeleton Box","description":"\u003cb\u003eDoes Gus Carpenter really want to know what’s inside the skeleton box? In Anthony– and Barry Award–winning author Bryan Gruley’s gripping new novel, Gus must decide if the truth is better off dead and buried.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMysterious break-ins are plaguing the small town of Starvation Lake. While elderly residents enjoy their weekly bingo night at St. Valentine’s Catholic Church, someone is slipping into their homes to rifle through financial and personal files. Oddly, the intruder takes nothing—yet the “Bingo Night Burglaries” leave the entire town uneasy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorry turns into panic when a break-in escalates to murder. Suddenly, Gus Carpenter, editor of the \u003ci\u003ePine County Pilot, \u003c\/i\u003eis forced to investigate the most difficult story of his life. Not only is the victim his ex-girlfriend Darlene’s mother, but her body was found in the home of Bea Carpenter—Gus’s own mother. Suffering from worsening dementia and under the influence of sleeping pills, Bea remembers little of the break-in. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the help of Luke Whistler, a former \u003ci\u003eDetroit Free Press \u003c\/i\u003ereporter who came north looking for slower days and some old-fashioned newspaper work, Gus sets out to uncover the truth behind the murder. But when the story leads him to a lockbox his mother has kept secret for years, Gus doesn’t realize that its contents could forever change his perception of Starvation Lake, his own family, and the value of the truth.","brand":"Gruley, Bryan","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42916093427936,"sku":"1234584307","price":17.39,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_306c7d7f-78bd-4280-ab1c-0600cf0ded4f.jpg?v=1654005009","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-skeleton-boxbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}