THE NEW MIKE BOWDITCH BOOK IS HERE!
For the first time in print, Skin and Bones features a collection of eight gripping original short stories in the bestselling Mike Bowditch series from two time Edgar-award nominee Paul Doiron. This the 16th entry in the Barry Award winning series.
“Doiron presents eight top-shelf mysteries featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch—including the previously unpublished “Sheep’s Clothing”—in this exciting collection. [His] evocative prose and clever plotting work as well in the short story form as they do at novel length. This will delight existing Bowditch fans and newcomers alike.” —Publisher’s Weekly
“The title story, the longest and finest thing here, uses the present-day shooting of a bald eagle to motivate still another tale Charley tells Mike about a long-ago eagle shooting, this one involving Mike’s abusive father. Like all the other stories here, this one grows as if unbidden from the natural environment Doiron knows so well and builds gradually to include more and more complications, this time ending in a shattering climax. Welcome to Maine. Make sure you’re locked and loaded.”—Kirkus Reviews
Critically acclaimed for his brilliant crime novels, Paul Doiron proves he is also the master of short story in Skin and Bones.
In THE BEAR TRAP, legendary Maine woodsman and bush pilot Charley Stevens tries to convince young Mike of the dangers awaiting rookie game wardens.
When a visiting hunter goes missing in the middle of a snowstorm, a young Charley Stevens sets off to rescue him―but begins to suspect the man may not want to be found in BACKTRACK.
RABID draws Mike into the story of a gruesome case involving a bat with rabies from his Charley Steven’s past (2019 Edgar award nominee for Best Short Story).
An investigation into the killing of a bald eagle in SKIN AND BONES unearths an old case of a missing young man whose physically abusive brother might have murdered him.
In THE IMPOSTER, Mike is confronted with a baffling case of stolen identity when he discovers a dead body whose driver’s license claims he is none other than Mike Bowditch himself.
Mike tracks down a sinister prowler who turns a couple's dream vacation home into a nightmare in THE CARETAKER.
In SNAKEBIT, Mike must hunt down a killer who uses the unlikeliest of murder weapons: rattlesnakes.
BRAND NEW! Mike suspects there’s more to a grisly murder-suicide than meets the eye in SHEEP’S CLOTHING.
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Paul Doiron is the best-selling author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels set in the Maine woods. His first book, The Poacher’s Son, won the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award and was nominated for an Edgar for Best First Novel. His second, Trespasser, won the 2012 Maine Literary Award. His novelette “Rabid” was a finalist for the 2019 Edgar in the Best Short Story category. Paul’s twelfth book, Dead by Dawn won the New England Society’s 2022 Book Award for Fiction, as well as his second Maine Literary Award. It was also a finalist for the Barry Award. His books have been translated into 11 languages.
Paul is the former chair of the Maine Humanities Council, Editor Emeritus of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, and a Registered Maine Guide specializing in fly fishing.
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