In this thrilling entry in Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron’s bestselling series, the death of Maine’s last wild wolf leads Game Warden Mike Bowditch to an even bigger criminal conspiracy. Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch already has a troubling mystery on his hands: finding the archer who mortally wounded Maine’s only… Read more
“The Bear Trap” by Paul Doiron is an original short story in the Mike Bowditch mystery series, where legendary Maine woodsman and bush pilot Charley Stevens tries to convince young Mike Bowditch of the dangers awaiting rookie game wardens. “The Bear Trap” The wind moved across the surface of the… Read more
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Paul Doiron’s ninth Mike Bowditch Mystery combines with the latest thriller from Riley Sager to highlight… Read more
Stay Hidden by Paul Doiron is the intricately plotted ninth thriller featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch, where a supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder investigation. Take a visual tour through Stay Hidden with GIFnotes! A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the… Read more
A supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder investigation in Stay Hidden, the intricately-plotted new thriller from Paul Doiron featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly… Read more
In Paul Doiron’s riveting novel Widowmaker, Game Warden Mike Bowditch is on the trail of a ruthless vigilante amid the snow-covered mountains of Maine. Get a digital copy of the seventh book in the Mike Bowditch series, Widowmaker, for only $2.99 through the month of June! When a mysterious woman in distress… Read more
In this original short story in the Mike Bowditch mystery series, Mike is drawn into the story of a gruesome case from his mentor Charley Steven’s past. Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch accompanies his old friend and mentor, retired bush pilot Charley Stevens, as he pays a visit to a… Read more
When I started writing the first words of what would become The Poacher’s Son, I had no idea I was beginning a novel, let alone the first in a long series of novels. At the time I was working as a magazine journalist, always on the look out for good… Read more
Knife Creek by Paul Doiron is the 8th book in the Mike Bowditch Mystery series. Mike Bowditch works for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife along with his partner, Stacy. They could both do with some changes in their lives, as there are a few demons flying around that… Read more
Knife Creek by Paul Doiron is the 8th book in the Mike Bowditch Mystery series (available June 6, 2017). 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… Read more
