Mike Bowditch Series by Paul Doiron, Henry Leyva, Kymberly Dakin

4.04 · 252 ratings
  • The Poacher's Son (Mike Bowditch #1)
    #1

    The Poacher's Son (Mike Bowditch #1)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2010

    Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find a cryptic message on his answering machine from his father, Jack, who he hasn't heard from in two years. The next morning Mike gets a call from the police: a beloved local cop has been killed and his father is their prime suspect.Coming to terms with his haunted past and desperate for answers, Mike and a retired warden pilot journey deep into the Maine wilderness to clear his father's name and find out why Jack is on the run... more

  • Trespasser (Mike Bowditch #2)
    #2

    Trespasser (Mike Bowditch #2)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2011

    In Paul Doiron’s riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch’s quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before.    While on patrol one foggy March evening, Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road... more

  • Bad Little Falls (Mike Bowditch #3)
    #3

    Bad Little Falls (Mike Bowditch #3)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2012

    Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile, transferred by his superiors to a remote outpost on the Canadian border. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch is called to the rustic cabin of a terrified couple. A raving and half-frozen man has appeared at their door, claiming his friend is lost in the storm. But what starts as a rescue mission in the wilderness soon becomes a baffling murder investigation... more

  • Massacre Pond (Mike Bowditch #4)
    #4

    Massacre Pond (Mike Bowditch #4)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2013

    Massacre Pond is Edgar finalist Paul Doiron's superb new novel featuring Game Warden Mike Bowditch and a beautiful, enigmatic woman whose mission to save the Maine wilderness may have incited a murderOn an unseasonably hot October morning, Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the corpses of seven moose have been found senselessly butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Morse, a wealthy animal rights activist who is buying up huge parcels of timberland to create a new national park... more

  • Skin and Bones: And Other Mike Bowditch Short Stories (Mike Bowditch #4.5, 8.5, 9.5, 10.5, 11.5, 12.5,)
    #4.5, 8.5, 9.5, 10.5, 11.5, 12.5,

    Skin and Bones: And Other Mike Bowditch Short Stories (Mike Bowditch #4.5, 8.5, 9.5, 10.5, 11.5, 12.5,)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2025

    For the first time in print, Skin and Bones features a collection of eight gripping original short stories in the bestselling Mike Bowditch series―including one brand new, never-before-published story―from Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron.In THE BEAR TRAP, legendary Maine woodsman and bush pilot Charley Stevens tries to convince young Mike of the dangers awaiting rookie game wardens... more

  • The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch #5)
    #5

    The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch #5)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2014

    In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a troubled war veteran in an apparent case of "suicide by cop," he begins having second thoughts about his decision. Now Kathy finds herself the target of a government inquiry and outrage from the dead soldier's platoon mates. Soon she finds herself in the sights of a sniper, as well... more

  • The Precipice (Mike Bowditch #6)
    #6

    The Precipice (Mike Bowditch #6)

    Paul Doiron, Henry Leyva

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2015

    Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks.When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along the entire Appalachian Trail-Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the desperate search to find them... more

  • Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7)
    #7

    Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2016

    In Paul Doiron's Widowmaker, When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is beautiful, damaged, and hiding a secret with a link to his past.. She claims her son Adam is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort... more

  • Knife Creek (Mike Bowditch #8)
    #8

    Knife Creek (Mike Bowditch #8)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2017

    When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting wild boars that are tearing up the forest and farms in his district, he makes a horrific discovery—the body of a baby buried in a shallow grave. Even more disturbing: DNA tests link the infant to a young woman who has been missing and presumed dead after she disappeared from a group rafting trip four years earlier.As he assists the reopened investigation, Bowditch begins to suspect that some of his neighbors aren’t who they seem to be... more

  • Stay Hidden (Mike Bowditch #9)
    #9

    Stay Hidden (Mike Bowditch #9)

    Paul Doiron, Kymberly Dakin

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2018

    Narrator Henry Leyva keeps listeners on the edge of their seats with his delivery of a story with more murder suspects than Maine has pine trees. -- AudioFile Magazine on The Precipice In Paul Doiron's Stay Hidden, a supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder investigation in this intricately-plotted new audiobook thriller featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch.A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine... more

  • Almost Midnight (Mike Bowditch #10)
    #10

    Almost Midnight (Mike Bowditch #10)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2019

    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 wild wolf. Then he learns his best friend, Billy Cronk, has been released from prison after heroically defending a female guard from a stabbing... more

  • One Last Lie (Mike Bowditch #11)
    #11

    One Last Lie (Mike Bowditch #11)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2020

    A sudden disappearance reveals a startling connection to a 15-year-old cold case in the new thriller from bestselling Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron.“Never trust a man without secrets.” These are the last words retired game warden Charley Stevens speaks to his surrogate son, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, before the old man vanishes without explanation into a thousand miles of forest along the Canadian border... more

  • The Caretaker (Mike Bowditch #11.5)
    #11.5

    The Caretaker (Mike Bowditch #11.5)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2021

    In this new original short story from bestselling author Paul Doiron, Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch tracks down 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 menaced by an unknown figure. When the local authorities refuse to help, they turn to retired Maine game warden Charley Stevens and his young protege Mike Bowditch for protection... more

  • Dead by Dawn (Mike Bowditch #12)
    #12

    Dead by Dawn (Mike Bowditch #12)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2021

    Maine game warden Mike Bowditch finds himself in a life-or-death chase in this next thriller in the bestselling mystery series by Edgar Award nominee Paul Doiron, Dead by Dawn.Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in the middle of nowhere, having lost his gun and any way to signal for help, Mike fights his way to the surface. But surviving the crash is only the first challenge... more

  • Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch #13)
    #13

    Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch #13)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2022

    An eerie, windswept island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappearance in Hatchet Island, the next thriller in Paul Doiron's bestselling Mike Bowditch series.A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to a research station far off the coast... more

  • Dead Man's Wake (Mike Bowditch #14)
    #14

    Dead Man's Wake (Mike Bowditch #14)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2023

    Game Warden Mike Bowditch's engagement party is interrupted by the discovery of a gruesome double murder in this new thriller from Edgar Award-winning author Paul Doiron.On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash on a darkened lake. When they arrive at the scene, their spotlight reveals a gruesome a severed arm floating just beneath the surface... more

  • Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch #15)
    #15

    Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch #15)

    Paul Doiron

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2024

    Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods in this nail-biter of a thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron, Pitch Dark.Legendary bush pilot Josie Jonson can’t believe her luck when a skilled builder just happens to show up after she purchases land near Prentiss Pond. All Mark Redmond asks in return for building Josie’s dream cabin is that he be left alone to homeschool his 12-year-old daughter, Cady... more

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