STARVATION LAKE: A MYSTERY, and the newly released sequel, THE HANGING TREE.
Starvation Lake was recently nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America and is currently nominated for two Anthony Awards. Reviewers have compared Bryan to novelist Dennis Lehane.
Secretly, though, Bryan would love to be compared favorably to Detroit Red Wings stars Johan Franzen and Pavel Datsyuk. He's been playing hockey since he was a boy growing up in Detroit.
Hockey plays a big role in the life of the fictional town of Starvation Lake, as do two of Bryan's other passions, northern Michigan and newspapers.
Bryan had his first newspaper job at the nearby Antrim County News in the summer of 1978. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1979, Bryan worked for newspapers in Brighton, Howell, Kalamazoo and Detroit, Michigan, before joining The Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau in 1995.
Bryan is the author of a prize-winning non-fiction book, PAPER LOSSES: A MODERN EPIC OF GREED AND BETRAYAL AT AMERICA'S TWO LARGEST NEWSPAPER COMPANIES. He's also an amateur musician who sings, plays guitar, and composes his own songs. They include "For a Son," which he wrote after the 2002 death of his friend and Journal colleague, Danny Pearl.
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