cbr17bingo Free
Meeting up with our old friend Mike Bowditch, game warden, it turns out that he is no longer a game warden! Except for one of his first supervisors, Sgt. Kathy Frost, none of the rest of the folks he’s worked for have been too keen on him. There is that odd predicament concerning the number of murdered people that seem to turn up in his vicinity. He had been sent to the hinterlands of Maine for awhile now, but can finally take a hint, and quits to take on the lower profile job of a fishing guide.
But the past is pulling him back. Kathy, along with a rookie officer, have been forced to kill a disturbed and disfigured young man, a veteran, in a classic case of suicide by cop. Unfortunately, the man’s family is wealthy and well-connected, so the investigation is quite thorough. And, small world, the victim had been a friend of Mike’s prior to his enlistment. Mike had driven out to Kathy’s place to see how she was doing, but, speaking to her on the phone as he approaches her isolated farmhouse, she interrupts him. Her dog has gone after something in the front yard, and she tells him she will call him back. But as he approaches, his truck’s windshield is blown out by gunfire. He finds her dog dead and Kathy bleeding out in her open front door. He calls for medical help, but Kathy is badly wounded and ends up in a coma. Naturally, he needs to investigate. Doesn’t look like he will be showing the tourists where the fish are lurking any time soon.
And, spoiler alert, since there are more books in this series to go, seems like the paperwork didn’t all get filed when he quit. Good. I need me some more Mike Bowditch, game warden.
