Mike Bowditch #3
Minotaur Books
July 2013
On Sale: July 13, 2013
Featuring: Mike Bowditch
320 pages ISBN: 1250031478 EAN: 9781250031471 Kindle: B00779RJOM Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Anthony- and Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another βmasterpiece of high-octane narrativeβ (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 Canadian border. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch is called to the rustic cabin of a terrified couple. A raving and half-frozen man has appeared at their door, claiming his friend is lost in the storm.
But what starts as a rescue mission in the wilderness soon becomes a baffling murder investigation. The dead man is a notorious drug dealer, and state police detectives suspect it was his own friend who killed him. Bowditch isnβt so sure, but his vow not to interfere in the case is tested when he finds himself powerfully attracted to a beautiful woman with a dark past and a troubled young son. The boy seems to know something about what really happened in the blizzard, but he is keeping his secrets locked in a cryptic notebook, and Mike fears for the safety of the strange child. Meanwhile, an anonymous tormentor has decided to make the new wardenβs life a living hell. Alone and outgunned, Bowditch turns for assistance to his old friend, the legendary bush pilot Charley Stevens.
But in this snowbound landscapeβ where smugglers wage blood feuds by nightβhelp seems very far away indeed. If Bowditch is going to catch a killer, he must survive on his own wits and discover strength he never knew he possessed.