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Bryan Gruley

Traverse City
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Author of thriller RIVER DEEP, pubbing July 7 2026. Lifelong journalist. Edgar finalist, Pulitzer winner. Grandpa, dad, hubby, lover of hockey, guitar, golf.

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Bryan Gruley is a reporter-at-large for Bloomberg News in Chicago, writing about a wide array of subjects. Since joining Bloomberg in September 2011, he has written about sex among demented people in nursing homes, the difficult life of McDonald's franchisees, the rise of Buffalo Wild Wings, oilman Harold Hamm, a Texas ranch for sale for $725 million, Starbucks' coffee farm in Costa Rica, Detroit's twin pizza barons, a medical marijuana entrepreneur, copper mining in northern Minnesota, the pip…

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The Frustrating Life of a McDonald's Franchisee

The Frustrating Life of a McDonald's Franchisee

Al Jarvis was 16 when he started working at a McDonald's in Saginaw, a city in Michigan, in 1965. His first c…

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Can a Wife With Dementia Say Yes to Sex?

Can a Wife With Dementia Say Yes to Sex?

A detailed narrative of the case of Henry V. Rayhons, a 78-year-old Iowa farmer and state legislator who was …

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How to Write A Book

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By Bryan Gruley
| Substack
This is how you write a book. Or at least how I write one. I start with a simple idea. Maybe because I’m a lifelong journalist now writing mystery/thriller fiction, all but one of my seven novels derived from a real-world occurrence: A hockey coach who abused his young players. A family murdered in their sleep. A woman accused of drowning her twin infant boys. A nun’s bones buried beneath a church.
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Book Excerpt: 'River Deep,' A Gritty Crime Thriller Set in a Fictional Town in Northern Michigan

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By Bryan Gruley
| Deadline Detroit Verified
Media The author, who grew up in Redford, is an award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist and a former reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek, The Detroit News, and The Wall Street Journal, where he worked in the Washington bureau before serving as the Chicago bureau chief. He was part of a team at the Journal that won a Pulitzer Prize for 9/11 coverage. He currently resides in Traverse City.
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RIVER DEEP | Kirkus Reviews

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By Bryan Gruley
| Kirkus Reviews Verified
A compelling demonstration of the wisdom that seeing events unfold before your eyes doesn’t always reveal their truth. Gruley returns to the Michigan town of Bitterfrost to investigate a violent incident that introduces another crime wave. The opening disaster, however tragic, seems remarkably straightforward.
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