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Mike Bowditch Series

Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron: Featured Excerpt

By Crime HQ

June 14, 2022

PROLOGUE Every night, no matter how many drinks he’d had or joints he’d smoked, he would awaken to the screams of birds. For an instant, he would think he was back on the island. Then his hand would find the lamp beside the bed and the light would expose the messiness of his dorm room.…

Book Review: Dead by Dawn by Paul Doiron

By Janet Webb

June 25, 2021

Road trip! Man and wolf are off to visit the vet and afterward, conduct a cold-case inquiry. Maine game warden Mike Bowditch’s cold-case is “the suspicious drowning of a wealthy professor.” The death was deemed accidental, but the professor’s persistent and unconventional daughter-in-law is sure he was murdered. After speaking with her, Mike interviews “a…

An Excerpt from “The Caretaker” by Paul Doiron

By Paul Doiron

May 4, 2021

Priced at just $1.99, this original short story in the bestselling Mike Bowditch mystery series by Paul Doiron finds Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch on the hunt for a sinister prowler turning a couple’s dream vacation home into a nightmare. New owners of a dream cottage on a remote Maine lake find themselves taunted, then…

Dead by Dawn by Paul Doiron: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

February 17, 2021

Chapter 1   The hill is steep here, and there is no guardrail above the river. I think I am being careful, keeping a light touch on the wheel, feathering the brakes. But then I come around the curve and see the spiked objects scattered across the asphalt in my headlights. They look like barbaric…

Book Review: One Last Lie by Paul Doiron

By Janet Webb

June 30, 2020

Mike is off his game from the get-go in One Last Lie, thanks to Charley Stevens. Before I left for Florida, my old friend and mentor Charley Stevens gave me a puzzling piece of advice. “Never trust a man without secrets.”   I thought he’d misspoken. “Don’t you mean a man with secrets?”   But…

An Excerpt from “The Imposter”

By Paul Doiron

May 1, 2020

Priced at just $1.99, this original short story in the bestselling Mike Bowditch mystery series by Paul Doiron finds Mike confronted with a case of stolen identity. When the body of a young man is pulled from a submerged car in Roque Harbor, rookie game warden Mike Bowditch is shocked when the man’s driver’s license…

Book Series Binge: Q&A with Paul Doiron and Introduction to the Mike Bowditch Series

By Crime HQ

March 27, 2020

Describe the first time you pictured Mike Bowditch in your head? Paul Doiron: This might sound unbelievable, but I don’t have a clear idea what Mike Bowditch looks like. I can tell you he has blue eyes, dark hair, is 6’2”, with a physique that’s closer to a cornerback than a linebacker, that he has…

Marooned and in Peril: Five Crime Novels Set on Islands

By Edwin Hill

August 22, 2019

There’s something inherently interesting about a mystery set on an island. There are those that are set on small islands: ones that are remote, wind-swept, and hopefully facing a devastating storm. The threat of isolation without the possibility of outside assistance makes for great storytelling. Then there are the ones that explore those tiny close-knit…

Almost Midnight by Paul Doiron

Almost Midnight: New Excerpt

By Paul Doiron

In this thrilling entry in Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron’s bestselling series, a deadly attack on one of Maine’s last wild wolves leads Game Warden Mike Bowditch to an even bigger criminal conspiracy.

Backtrack by Paul Doiron Short Story

“Backtrack” by Paul Doiron: An Exclusive Short Story

By Paul Doiron

Enjoy “Backtrack”—an original, brand new, Criminal Element-exclusive short story from Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron, author of the bestselling Mike Bowditch series. When a visiting hunter goes missing in the middle of a snowstorm, a young Charley Stevens (later the mentor to game warden Mike Bowditch) sets off to rescue him—but begins to suspect the…

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