Almost always the smartest man in the room, Maine Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch’s career exemplifies courage, self-possession, and off-the-scales stubbornness. Newly married to Stacey Stevens, Mike is on the cusp of middle-age, and it’s making him self-reflective. Have father-in-law Charley Steven’s homilies and aphorisms finally landed on fertile ground? Nothing makes a person feel older…
Preorder Pitch Dark by Paul Doiron 3 When I got Charley on the phone and told him what Brandon had told me and what Stacey and I had subsequently learned—or not learned—about Mark Redmond and Hammond Pratt, and after I had explained my plan to ask Josie to fly us to Prentiss Pond, his response…
Alex Brangwen is not your typical police detective. Once upon a time, the Englishman was a celebrated author with a novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize, a cultural cachet that was a large part of his appeal to his then-wife Morgana. At his American bride’s urging, the couple moved from London to Maine while she…
Reporter Lucy Stone is looking forward to covering the grand opening of a state-of-the-art community center in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and not just because the building’s central air provides a welcome relief from the blistering heatwave outside. Lucy believes that the services the new taxpayer-funded facility offer will do a lot to benefit their town,…
Alex Brangwen, the protagonist/detective of my new novel, Granite Harbor, is a single parent to a teenage daughter—and a failed novelist. He lives in a small town in Maine, where a serial killer has struck, targeting teenage children. Some years ago—never mind how many—I was living in Tucson, Arizona, where my young son’s mother had…
Maggie Bird is a woman quietly living out her sixties in comfortable retirement, raising chickens on a farm in the small town of Purity, Maine. Her biggest day-to-day concerns are what to do about foxes stealing her hens, and how to help her grouchy older neighbor and his endearing teenage granddaughter Callie, who’s taken quite…
“Snakebit” is a satisfying amuse bouche from Paul Doiron, a vignette from warden Mike Bowditch’s past that doesn’t follow the events of Hatchet Island, published in June 2022. Dead Man’s Wake, the 14th in the series, drops June 27th. “Snakebit” shows us Bowditch as a junior game warden. His personality, his relationship with his co-workers,…
1 It’s a wonder that all marriages don’t end in murder-suicides,” said my stepfather’s new wife, Jubilee. Neil, my stepdad, nearly spit out his decaf. It was the evening of Stacey’s and my engagement party. In the five years since my mom had died, Neil Turner and I had drifted apart. We had never been…
Chapter 1 The woman on the phone refused to give her name, but she swore she’d just seen a rattlesnake on her hike up Black Cat Mountain. “I almost stepped on the frigging thing!” The man on the other end of the call was a Maine game warden named Mike Bowditch. “Did you get a…
Readers have grown up with Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch, a seasoned warden with a preternatural talent for doggedly ferreting out the truth. It’s a trait that has made him enemies in and out of law enforcement. Mike and his longtime off-and-on girlfriend Stacey Stevens are back together; she’s his soul-mate but they’ve had…
