Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-06370-0
At the outset of Edgar-finalist Doiron’s uneven seventh contemporary mystery featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2015’s The Precipice), Mike spies a Jeep parked across the road from his Sebago Lake home. Inside the vehicle is Amber...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-86442-0
Doiron’s stirring 15th mystery for Mike Bowditch (after Dead Man’s Wake) finds the recently married Maine game warden probing a dangerous missing person case. North Woods hunting lodge operator Ivan Ivanov contacts the Warden Service about a...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $29 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-86439-0
Doiron’s long-running series featuring Maine game warden and criminal investigator Mike Bowditch delivers one of its most satisfying shocks yet in this 14th entry (after 2022’s Hatchet Island). Bowditch is celebrating his engagement to Stacey...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-23513-8
Edgar finalist Doiron’s exceptional 13th mystery featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2021’s Dead by Dawn) takes Bowditch and his significant other, biologist Stacey Stevens, to Baker Island after Stacey receives a request for help from...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-23510-7
At the start of Edgar finalist Doiron’s nail-biting 12th mystery featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2020’s One Last Lie), Bowditch runs his Jeep off the road into the icy Androscoggin River after his tires are shredded by metal spikes...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-23507-7
Edgar finalist Doiron artfully blends a whodunit plot with superior characterizations in his top-notch 11th mystery featuring Mike Bowditch, who works for the Maine Warden Service (after 2019’s After Midnight). Bowditch rushes back home to Maine...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-10241-6
At the start of Edgar-finalist Doiron’s solid 10th mystery featuring game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2018’s Stay Hidden), Mike visits the Maine State Prison at the behest of his best friend, Billy Cronk, who’s incarcerated there for killing a man...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-10238-6
The shooting of investigative journalist Ariel Evans on Maine’s Maquoit Island drives Doiron’s outstanding ninth novel featuring game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2017’s Knife Creek). Ariel apparently took a house on the island as part of her...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-10235-5
Edgar-finalist Doiron’s intelligent eighth mystery featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2016’s Widowmaker) finds Mike and his girlfriend, Stacey Stevens, in the woods of western Maine, where their job is to kill feral pigs that have...
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Paul Doiron, Author Minotaur $24.99 (324p) ISBN 978-0-312-55846-8
Down East
editor-in-chief Doiron takes a provocative look at the ties between fathers and sons, unconditional love, and Maine’s changing landscape in his outstanding debut. Game warden Mike Bowditch, who hasn’t heard from his dad, Jack...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-06369-4
Doiron brings his gift for making the Maine woods live and breathe to a taut whodunit in his stellar sixth novel featuring game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2014’s The Bone Orchard). Bowditch is pulled away from a romantic weekend with his biologist...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-03488-5
Having quit the Maine Warden Service for various personal reasons, Mike Bowditch barely ekes out a living as a fishing guide, showing off Maine’s North Woods to tourists, in Edgar finalist Doiron’s excellent fifth series installment (after 2013’s...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-03393-2
The people of Washington County, Maine, are in an uproar in Doiron’s fourth novel starring game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2012’s Bad Little Falls), the best yet in the series. Hippie-turned-millionaire Betty Morse has spent some of her fortune to...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-55848-2
The excellent third novel from Edgar-finalist Dorion featuring game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2011’s Trespasser) finds Bowditch in Maine’s equivalent of Siberia, depressed Washington County, to which he was transferred after he became an...
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Paul Doiron. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-55847-5
In Doiron's compelling sequel to his debut, The Poacher's Son, troubled 25-year-old Mike Bowditch, a Maine game warden, is still coming to grips with the realization that his estranged father—now deceased—has become known as the state's most...
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Paul Doiron, read by John Bedford Lloyd, Macmillan Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-0896-5
Doiron's strong debut features Mike Bowditch, a newbie game warden, who hears that his estranged father, a hard-living poacher, has been accused of murdering two men and has escaped into a wilderness area. Ignoring the orders of both his superior...
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Paul Doiron, read by Henry Leyva. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-6313-1
Book six in Edgar finalist Doiron’s series featuring Mike Bowditch (after 2014’s The Bone Orchard) has the Appalachian Trail game warden reluctantly diverted from a romantic weekend with a new girlfriend to participate in a hunt for two young women...
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Paul Doiron, read by Henry Levya. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3518-3
It’s a shame that the dramatic opening of this fourth mystery from Doiron featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch isn’t properly conveyed in this audio edition. But the news isn’t all bad. Narrator Henry Levya creates a plausible down-to-earth...
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