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Knife Creek: A Mike Bowditch Mystery (Mike Bowditch Mysteries, 8) Paperback – May 15, 2018

by Paul Doiron (Author)
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In Knife Creek, a new edge-of-your-seat thriller from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Mike Bowditch delves into a long buried investigation to uncover a dangerous secret.

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 a shallow grave.

Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed to have died four years earlier after she disappeared from a group rafting trip.

As Bowditch assists the reopened investigation, he begins to suspect that some of his neighbors aren’t who they seem to be. When violence strikes close to home, he realizes that his unknown enemies will stop at nothing to keep their terrible secrets.

Mike Bowditch has bucked the odds his whole career, but this time the intrepid warden may have finally followed his hunches one step too far.

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    Mike Bowditch Mysteries
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    May 15, 2018
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    5.3 x 0.95 x 8.15 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    9781250102362
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A native of Maine, bestselling author PAUL DOIRON attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in English. The Poacher’s Son, the first book in the Mike Bowditch series, won the Barry award, the Strand award for best first novel, and has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity awards in the same category. He is a Registered Maine Guide specializing in fly fishing and lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine with his wife, Kristen Lindquist.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1250102367
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books; Reprint edition (May 15, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781250102362
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250102362
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.95 x 8.15 inches
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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. PopMatters named it one of the best novels of the year. 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.

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. He lives on a trout stream on the Maine midcoast.

His novels have been translated into 11 languages: German, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Czech, and Finnish.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Could not put it down
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2017
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This book is the eighth book in a series of mysteries featuring Mike Bowditch. Lucky you if you are just now finding it. Just don’t read this book first. It would stand alone, but it is a series that is best read in order since the evolution and development of Mike and the other continuing characters is a strength of the series. There is much that you would miss, if this were your starting point. Mike Bowditch is a game warden in Maine. A game warden in Maine has law enforcement responsibilities well beyond fish and game. Paul Doiron is a very talented writer. He tells an engrossing story with strong plotting, good pacing, and excellent characters. That would be more than enough, but it is not all. Maine is so richly described that it becomes a big factor in the books. I appreciate a series with an extraordinary sense of place and this series is one of the best, like the books by Tony Hillerman, Jean-Luc Bannalec, Martin Walker, Mark Pryor, and Ann Cleeves among others. Mike Bowditch’s Maine is not tourist Maine. Like Archer Mayor shows the Vermont of the full-time residents, Paul Doiron shows the Maine of the backwoods complete with insects, natural beauty, violence, threatening weather, people scratching out subsistence livings, and occasional meth labs. This series is not a cozy with a newly single young woman inheriting a bookstore/knitting store in postcard Maine reluctantly on her way to murder and romance. This series is closer to a police procedural with multiple law enforcement agencies, large territories and almost everything outside. There are some disturbing images and creepy people. It is not remotely formulaic. There are twists along the way, but they always feel real, not contrived. This book begins with a wild pig hunt designed to thwart the incursion of a destructive and non-native animal from Maine. The body of an infant is discovered in the pig territory. We do follow this series and pre-order these books. We will look forward to the next one.
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PaulB
4.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent Mike Bowditch book, but with a disappointing ending.
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2017
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I have read all of the books in this series, and look forward to a new book each June which I read on my summer vacation in northern Maine. It's great. His writing has gotten better with each book, particularly his character development which was pretty rudimentary in the first couple books. This book has a great plot concept, which is developed nicely through the book until the ending. I have to agree with reviewer Mike's review of June 27: the ending is ludicrous, and insults the reader's intelligence. It is not plausible.
The character Becky, the embodiment of evil, is peculiar in that Mr Doiron never explains her background, or why she would be doing the terrible things she does, seemingly at the the service of another character I will not name so as to not be a plot spoiler. We get no background whatsoever on this major player.
One other criticism is that Mr Doiron has developed a nice stable of characters over the years, but his recent books are bogged down by him bringing back many of them and retelling their stories. For example, we do not need Kathy Frost, her history, or the specific brand of wristwatch she wears. (Mr Doiron seems to love to name products - to add authenticity, perhaps?) She has no role in this book's plot.
I hope see the next book in this series in the spring of 2018, perhaps with better editing.
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Wayne A. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars His Best Yet
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2021
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Knife Creek got five stars from me as this is the Best Bowdich book I've read (Im' reading through the series).

The author wraps Bowdich's personal challenges, career barriers and a really good crime and criminals into a fast moving story. As always, the Maine outdoors serve as a richly developed and well described backdrop to the story. Although Bowdich - in every book - singlehandedly again solves a crime (though is rescued by an officer who may be a future love interest in the end), this is a good story in what has become a pretty formulaic series. Formula isn't particularly bad and the author's descriptive skills and excellent pacing make this a rollicking and enjoyable read.

The last action scene is particularly well told and harrowing. Although you can guess how Bowdich is going to work his way out of a death trap, what are almost his last torturous minutes are believable and gripping. Kudos to the author - those types of scenes can go way over the top and stretch believability - not here though.

One thing Paul Doiron does well - in addition to his detailed descriptions of flora and fauna local to Maine - is get enough police procedural detail right to make the story credible. The author does his research.

I'm not a big fan of the warden's girlfriend Stacy - who is annoying and petulant in the series, but it looks like she may be exiting the stage (at least for a while). I actually think that would be a good development to the story arc.

I've become a fan. The Mike Bowdich game warden series is well paced and believable escapism.
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Eloise Oliver
5.0 out of 5 stars Could not stop
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2023
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This was another fantastic story. Had no idea about the ending. Kept me going and guessing the whole book. On to the next!!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2019
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Abuse triggers.

Stand-alone that is easy to follow and difficult to put down. No editing errors, gratuitous violence or drag-you-down drama.

Intriguing storyline with descriptive writing that draws the reader into each scene both physically and emotionally. Realistic procedures, actions and reactions. Believable characters with distinct personalities. Thoght-provoking and memorable dialogue.

'The moral of the story, as I understood it, was that the persistence of evil in the world is often made possible by failures of imagination.'

'He says that drunks have a name for the idea that moving to a new place will free them from their enslavement to the bottle. They call it “the geographical cure.”

'When all you can do is wait, I had learned long ago, the best thing to do is work.'

'Once made, bad decisions are so much harder to abandon than good ones.'

No desire to re-read this story. I am interested in other works by this author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars やはり人情味たっぷりの猟区管理官
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害獣駆除の任務の傍ら迷いネコを助ける優しいメイン州猟区管理官マイク・ボウディッチは以前の失敗から陰口を叩かれており、恋人ステイシーに「他所で出直しましょうよ」と誘われてもこの土地が好きで仕事も好きで離れられない。ある日猟区に侵入した獰猛な野生豚を射殺するときステイシーが足をとられて嵌り込んだ泥のなかからレッドソックスの赤シャツに包まれた死後まもない赤ん坊がみつかった。付近をしらみつぶしに捜査すると空き家のはずのところに姉妹と名乗る不審な二人がおり、あくる日捜査官を連れて訪問すると突然ガス爆発が起きて遺留品がすべて飛び散ってしまった。マイクが描いた姉妹の似顔絵をみた捜査官たちが顔色を変えたのは、その若い方が4年前大学生時代にキャンプで行方不明となった女性ケイシーだという。当時の担当官メナリオは、ケイシーに同行していて はぐれた という男性ダコタに殺された、と断定しており、メナリオは「お前は見間違っておる！」と激怒し、捜査会議でイチャモンをつけてくる。はたしてその女性はケイシーなのか、ケイシーは囚われているのか、マイクは同僚や警察仲間と聞き込みを進めると怪しげな人物が次々に姿を現し始め、マイクの優しさが裏目にでて身に危険が迫る。話は一直線に盛り上がって息詰まる展開で最後まで一気読みとなる。そして解決後嬉しいことにマイクは一クラス上の管理調査官へと出世する。今作はシリーズのなかでもトップレベルだと思う。
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