In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near
the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake -- the same snowmobile
that went down with Starvation's legendary hockey coach years earlier.
But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accident happened five miles away
on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground
tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thing: murder.Gus
Carpenter, editor of the local newspaper, has recently returned to
Starvation after a failed attempt to make it big at the "Detroit
Times." In his youth, Gus was the goalie who let a state championship
get away, crushing Coach's dreams and earning the town's enmity. Now
he's investigating the murder of his former coach. But even more
unsettling to Gus are the holes in the town's past and the gnawing
suspicion that those holes may conceal some dark and disturbing secrets
secrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep.