Cannonball Read 18

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If the Snow and Icy Waters Don’t Get Ya, These Backwoods Folk Surely Will

Dead by Dawn by Paul Doiron

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On his way back from a routine vet trip for his wolf (not many vets are skilled in dealing with a “pet” like his), Mike Bowditch, Maine Game Warden/Investigator, is sent skittering off a booby-trapped icy mountain road into the frozen waters of a river far below.  Neither he nor the wolf (Shadow) are amused by this, and he breaks whatever he needs to for them to escape the submerging vehicle.  But that means he doesn’t have much in the way of equipment or tools, […]

Things You Never Want to Find in the Deep Dark Woods

Knife Creek by Paul Doiron

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Welp, those feral hogs have somehow managed to make their way up from Texas to the hinterlands of Maine (Seriously?  Yeah, really.)  But when game warden Mike Bowditch is asked to take care of them (they are in his neck of the woods after all), he also discovers the recent shallow grave of a dead baby well, at least, most of it.  At least there is DNA evidence. Which, oddly enough, matches the DNA of a young woman who went missing on a rafting trio […]

Aww, Who’s the Good Boi?

Widow-Maker by Paul Doiron

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Unlike the previous Mike Bowditch, game warden series, this book focuses on a particular moral dilemma.  A couple of teens are attending an elite ski boarding school near the Widow-maker Ski Resort in central Maine.  The girl, about a year younger, is from a wealthy connected family and is clearly being groomed to be a champion.  The boy, a scholarship kid, has a more uncertain future, but he is putting his best effort into it.  But things don’t go well, and the boy, who has […]

Mankiller Coyotes? C’mon now.

The Precipice by Paul Doiron

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So this latest installment of Mike Bowditch, Maine Game Warden, unexpectedly hit home for me. The featured animal was not the usual moose, wolf, elk, or deer, but rather the coyote.  Friends, I live in coyote country (actually, most US residents do).  But they have been my neighbors most of my life. I live in Southern California in a suburban area that directly backs into National Forest land.  Not to mention that directly behind my back wall is a heavily brushy hill, with a couple […]

What? He Quit?

The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron

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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 […]

Mooses? Meese? Why No Plural?

Massacre Pond by Paul Doiron

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cbr17bingo Favorite Well, there is a massacre of sorts involved here, but Massacre Pond is identified as being somewhere else than this locale, and isn’t really involved with this story.  Makes you wonder who chooses a title, and I suspect in this case, it wasn’t Doiron. Anyhoo, the massacre victims consist of ten moose.  All shot point blank on a game refuge, and clearly not for the meat.  Someone (make that two someones) are clearly trying to send a message.  There is a season for […]



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