"A new murder victim and a missing girl; how are they connected?"
Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted December 26, 2017
Mystery | Thriller | Suspense
Mike is a game warden. He travels around looking for
injured animals and taking out wild hogs. While out on
the job, Mike came across a pink t-shirt with the body of
a baby and wrapped in it. Wild hogs have already taken
bites out of this poor baby. Mike decides to check the
area to see if anyone knows anything about this baby. Mike comes across a house set back in the forest. As he
walks up to the door, a woman opens it and Mike can tell
that something is not right. After speaking with her, she
claims that she knows nothing but just as he is about to
leave a younger girl appears. Mike knows that he has seen
this girl somewhere, but where? As Mike goes back to his
car, he still is wondering how he knows her. Then it dawns
on him; she is someone who has been missing for four
years. All reports at the time were that she was dead. Mike reports his findings to his superiors. They all think
that he is nuts. Mike is not going to give up on what he
feels. He continues to investigate the murder of the baby
along with the missing girl. Strange things start to
happen. One of the witnesses who claim a woman came into
her store and brought the pink shirt is found dead. The
more clues that come up the more Mike is determined to
find this young woman. Now the rest of the force is
starting to believe Mike and it becomes an all-out
investigation. Mike is so close to finding out what happened until he is
captured. Who captured him and why? Paul Doiron writes a really a great thriller. I really
enjoyed the way Doiron described not only the characters
but also the wild animals. I feel Doiron nailed the
description of Mike perfectly. I also learned a lot about
wild hogs. I never really gave them much thought, but
Doiron made me really curious about them. I also learned a
lot about some government laws containing the meat of
these animals. Doiron also has a little bit of romance in KNIFE CREEK;
however, I feel it is really not a big part of the story
line. More like a side story but a welcome addition.
Hopefully, there will be more books in the game warden
Mike Bowdich series in the future as I have a
lot of catching up to do.
SUMMARY
When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting
invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his
district, he makes a horrific discovery — a dead baby buried
in a shallow grave. Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the
child of a young woman who was presumed to have died four
years earlier after she disappeared from a group rafting trip. As Bowditch assists the reopened investigation, he begins to
suspect that some of his neighbors aren’t who they seem to
be. When violence strikes close to home, he realizes that
his unknown enemies will stop at nothing to keep their
terrible secrets. Mike Bowditch has bucked the odds his whole career, but this
time the intrepid warden may have finally followed his
hunches one step too far.
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