KNIFE CREEK is book eight in the Mike
Bowditch
series and together with his
girlfriend Stacey, Mike is tasked with shooting some wild
boars that are
tearing up the forest and the farms. But, they make an
awful discovery, the body of a baby has been buried in a
shallow grave, left for the pigs to find and eat. If Mike
and Stacey hadn't unearthed the grave nothing would have
been left to find after the pigs had been done. It
gets even stranger when the DNA links the baby to a young
woman that disappeared four years earlier while rafting
with some friends. Everyone now thinks she is dead, but
apparently, she must have survived. What happened to her?
I have been curious about reading this series for a while
now and getting this book felt like a good way to
see if the series is anything for me. And I'm happy to
say that this book left me with a want for more. Game
warden Mike Bowditch and his biologist girlfriend Stacey are
easy to like. And, I also came to like
former game warden Dani, who now works for the state
police. Of course, there is a lot of history, past events
that are mentioned in this book, but it was never a hard
book to get into, despite the fact that I have never read
any of the previous books. Vice versa, it
just made me more curious to find and read the books from
the beginning.
The case is mysterious, tragic and thrilling to read
about. Just finding the little body is so tragic,
however, that is just the start to a bigger mystery. What
happened to the young woman who disappeared, is she still
alive? Has someone kept her alive for four years? Mike
can't help trying to figure it out, despite it not really
being his job, but there are some people living around
the place the baby was found, people that are acting
strange...
KNIFE CREEK is just my kind of book. Paul Doiron has
written a great thriller, and I'm very glad to have read
the book and I'm looking forward to both reading the next
in the series, and also reading the previous books, to
get to know Mike better.
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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