Mike Bowditch #9 by Paul Doiron Knife Creek begins with Maine game warden Mike Bowditch on what should be a difficult but straightforward assignment: culling invasive feral hogs that are damaging the forest in his district. Instead, he uncovers something…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Standalone Novels #7 by Wally Lamb The River Is Waiting follows Corby Ledbetter, a young father whose life is already under strain from job loss, new parenthood, and a secret dependence on alcohol and pills when he causes a tragedy…
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…