Paul Doiron Books In Order

Mike Bowditch Books In Publication Order

  1. The Poacher’s Son (2010)
  2. Trespasser (2011)
  3. Bad Little Falls (2012)
  4. Massacre Pond (2013)
  5. The Bone Orchard (2014)
  6. The Bear Trap (2014)
  7. The Precipice (2015)
  8. Widowmaker (2016)
  9. Knife Creek (2017)
  10. Rabid (2018)
  11. Stay Hidden (2018)
  12. Backtrack (2019)
  13. Almost Midnight (2019)
  14. The Imposter (2020)
  15. One Last Lie (2020)
  16. The Caretaker (2021)
  17. Dead by Dawn (2021)
  18. Hatchet Island (2022)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Eating Between The Lines (1998)

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Paul Doiron Books Overview

The Poacher’s Son

Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive-his own father

Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father Jack, a hard drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: they are searching for the man who killed a beloved local cop the night before-and his father is their prime suspect. Jack has escaped from police custody, and only Mike believes that his tormented father might not be guilty.

Now, alienated from the woman he loves, shunned by colleagues who have no sympathy for the suspected cop-killer, Mike must come to terms with his haunted past. He knows firsthand Jack’s brutality, but is the man capable of murder? Desperate and alone, he strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive. But the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer-which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.

The Poacher’s Son is a sterling debut of literary suspense. Taut and engrossing, it represents the first in a series featuring Mike Bowditch.

Trespasser

In Paul Doiron’s riveting follow up to his Edgar Award nominated novel, The Poacher’s Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch s quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before. While on patrol one foggy March evening, Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. When the game warden arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road but both the driver and the deer have vanished. And the state trooper assigned to the accident appears strangely unconcerned. The details of the disappearance seem eerily familiar. Seven years earlier, a jury convicted lobsterman Erland Jefferts of the rape and murder of a wealthy college student and sentenced him to life in prison. For all but his most fanatical defenders, justice was served. But when the missing woman is found brutalized in a manner that suggests Jefferts may have been framed, Bowditch receives an ominous warning from state prosecutors to stop asking questions. For Bowditch, whose own life was recently shattered by a horrific act of violence, doing nothing is not an option. His clandestine investigation reopens old wounds between Maine locals and rich summer residents and puts both his own life and that of the woman he loves in jeopardy. As he closes in on his quarry, he suddenly discovers how dangerous his opponents are, and how far they will go to prevent him from bringing a killer to justice.

Bad Little Falls

Anthony and Edgar award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another masterpiece of high octane narrative Booklist with his newest harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile,transferred by his superiors to a remote outpost on the Canadianborder. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch iscalled to the rustic cabin of a terrified couple. A raving and halffrozenman has appeared at their door, claiming his friend is lostin the storm. But what starts as a rescue mission in the wildernesssoon becomes a baffling murder investigation. The dead man is anotorious drug dealer, and state police detectives suspect it washis own friend who killed him. Bowditch isn t so sure, but hisvow not to interfere in the case is tested when he finds himselfpowerfully attracted to a beautiful woman with a dark past anda troubled young son. The boy seems to know something aboutwhat really happened in the blizzard, but he is keeping his secretslocked in a cryptic notebook, and Mike fears for the safety of thestrange child. Meanwhile, an anonymous tormentor has decidedto make the new warden’s life a living hell. Alone and outgunned,Bowditch turns for assistance to his old friend, the legendarybush pilot Charley Stevens. But in this snowbound landscape where smugglers wage blood feuds by night help seems veryfar away indeed. If Bowditch is going to catch a killer, he mustsurvive on his own wits and discover strength he never knew hepossessed.

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