With thoughts of romance, Game Warden Mike Bowditch is
thrilled to take a short vacation break from his busy job
in as a Game Warden in Maine to spend time with his new
girlfriend Stacey Stevens. As a biologist with Maine's
Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the
headstrong and intelligent Stacey is very comfortable
with Mike's work environment. Her dad, Charley Stevens,
is not only a former Warden Service pilot as well as
having been Mike's mentor as he started his career. Mike
has high hopes of taking this relationship to a new
level, but a telephone call to their cabin soon turns
this tryst into vacation interruptus. A search and
rescue operation is on for two missing female hikers on
the Appalachian Trail and Mike is critically needed to
help with the search.
Despite the toughness of the steep terrain on the Hundred
Mile Wilderness section of the trail and the strangeness
of his fellow searcher, this is the kind of job that
Bowditch knows every effort has to be made as time is
everything and they are rapidly running out of time and
hope. What could have happened to the two young newly
graduated university students?
When their mangled bodies are found, the search turns
quickly into an investigation into who or what could be
so savage and rumors fly. Yet. as Mike follows his
scant leads, the hunters become the hunted. Will the
killer or killers strike again? Who will be the target
next?
Bestselling author Paul Doiron sets the bar very high
with THE PRECIPICE, the sixth book in his award winning
Mike
Bowditch mystery series. While I have to declare
my bias as I am a total fan of Doiron's books, I really
appreciated the development and increased maturity in
Mike Bowditch. As the main protagonist he handles his
role in this investigation well, learning to rein in
his fast understanding of situations and instincts with
a better understanding of the need for teamwork. If you
are new to Doiron's books and are familiar with other
protagonists such as C. J. Box's Joe Pickett and Craig
Johnson's Sheriff Walt Longmire, you will be glad to add
THE PRECIPICE and Mike Bowditch mysteries to your top
reading shelf as you immerse yourself in the deep woods
of Maine and its various human and animal inhabitants
that Doiron as a Registered Guide knows so well.
Doiron's personal knowledge of Maine's landscape provides
for a strong sense of place and instantly pulls the
reader into the story. His fast paced plot development
makes THE PRECIPICE a real page turner that will make it
very difficult to put down as I know from personal
experience. Bowditch is a very likeable person and one
gets a good sense of his own awareness of his actions as
he reflects on his experiences and past cases. Doiron's
secondary characters are quickly sketched, but do jump
immediately and vividly to life as their mannerisms,
attitudes and speech are described in a very authentic
manner and his strong sense of knowing how to write
interesting dialogue keeps the story moving and the
reader in suspense.
If you are looking for a fast paced and captivating
mystery, I highly recommend THE PRECIPICE. Not only is
this a great stand-alone investigative novel for new
readers of Doiron and long standing fans are sure to
relish the twists and turns facing Mike Bowditch as he
confronts tricky situations in THE PRECIPICE. As a
further treat for readers hungry for more in this
series, the eagerly awaited next installment, THE
WIDOWMAKER, has also just been released. It is now top
on my list of books to read and I am sure that it will
be on yours as well, but be sure to check out THE
PRECIPICE first!
In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks. When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along the entire Appalachian Trail-Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the desperate search to find them. Hope turns to despair after two unidentified corpses are discovered-their bones picked clean by coyotes. Do the bodies belong to the missing hikers? And were they killed by the increasingly aggressive wild dogs? Soon, all of Maine is gripped with the fear of killer coyotes. But Bowditch has his doubts. His new girlfriend, wildlife biologist Stacey Stevens, insists the scavengers are being wrongly blamed. She believes a murderer may be hiding in the offbeat community of hikers, hippies, and woodsmen at the edge of the Hundred Mile Wilderness. When Stacey herself disappears along the AT, the hunt for answers becomes personal. Can Mike Bowditch find the woman he loves before the most dangerous animal in the North Woods strikes again?
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