Widowmaker
Mike Bowditch #8 by Paul Doiron Widowmaker begins when a troubled woman named Amber Langstrom appears outside Maine game warden Mike Bowditch’s home with a claim that hits close to his past. She says her missing son Adam, a convicted…
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The Precipice
Mike Bowditch #7 by Paul Doiron The Precipice sends Maine game warden Mike Bowditch into the Hundred-Mile Wilderness after two young women vanish while hiking the most remote stretch of the Appalachian Trail. What begins as a search-and-rescue effort grows…
The Bear Trap
Mike Bowditch #6 by Paul Doiron The Bear Trap is a short Mike Bowditch story rather than a full-length series novel, and its premise shifts attention away from Mike’s own investigation toward one of the series’ most memorable supporting figures.…
Massacre Pond
Mike Bowditch #4 by Paul Doiron Massacre Pond begins with Maine game warden Mike Bowditch being called to the scene of a bizarre and ugly crime: several moose have been found butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Morse, a wealthy…
Bad Little Falls
Mike Bowditch #3 by Paul Doiron Bad Little Falls finds Maine game warden Mike Bowditch in professional exile, transferred to a remote outpost near the Canadian border after the fallout of earlier events. In the middle of a blizzard, he…
Trespasser
Mike Bowditch #2 by Paul Doiron Trespasser finds Maine game warden Mike Bowditch drawn into what first looks like a routine roadside incident: a woman has hit a deer on a remote road, but when Mike arrives, both the driver…
The Bone Orchard
Mike Bowditch #5 by Paul Doiron The Bone Orchard opens with Mike Bowditch no longer serving as a Maine game warden after a family tragedy, trying instead to build a quieter life as a fishing guide in the North Woods.…
All That Remains
Kay Scarpetta #3 by Patricia Cornwell All That Remains finds Dr. Kay Scarpetta facing a grim pattern of murders in Virginia, where young couples have been disappearing and later turning up dead in remote areas. The latest case becomes even…
Body of Evidence
Kay Scarpetta #2 by Patricia Cornwell Body of Evidence begins when bestselling romance novelist Beryl Madison is found murdered after months of threatening phone calls and growing fear that she is being watched. As Virginia chief medical examiner Dr. Kay…
Postmortem
Kay Scarpetta #1 by Patricia Cornwell Postmortem introduces Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner in Richmond, Virginia, as she is drawn into the investigation of a serial killer targeting women across the city. The case offers very little to…