Below is the complete list of Paul Doiron books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series. Mike Bowditch Books in Publication Order Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order About Paul Doiron Paul Doiron is an…
Eating Between the Lines: A Maine Writers’ Cookbook is not a Mike Bowditch title or a conventional narrative work, but an edited cookbook that brings together recipes and writing from Maine authors. Edited by Paul Doiron and published by the…
Skin and Bones: And Other Mike Bowditch Short Stories is not a single Mike Bowditch novel but a collection that brings together eight short works set across the same Maine game-warden world. For the first time in print, the book…
Storm Tide opens with Maine game warden Mike Bowditch trying and failing to rescue entrepreneur Brian Malloy from a house fire. Malloy had been suspected of murdering his young, illegitimate son, so his death immediately raises the possibility that someone…
Pitch Dark begins when legendary bush pilot Josie Jonson thinks she has found an unlikely stroke of luck. After buying land near Prentiss Pond in the North Maine Woods, she meets Mark Redmond, a skilled builder who offers to construct…
Dead Man’s Wake opens on what should be one of the happiest nights in Mike Bowditch’s life: his engagement party with Stacey Stevens. Instead, the celebration is shattered when they witness what seems to be a speedboat hit-and-run on a…
Snakebit is a Mike Bowditch short story rather than a full-length novel, and its central hook is one of the strangest in the series: Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has to track a killer using rattlesnakes as a murder weapon.…
Hatchet Island begins when Maine warden investigator Mike Bowditch travels with his girlfriend, Stacey Stevens, to a seabird sanctuary off the coast of Maine to check on a researcher who has gone missing. What starts as a welfare visit quickly…
Skin and Bones is a Mike Bowditch short story rather than a full-length novel, and its premise begins with the killing of a bald eagle, a crime that immediately carries unusual weight in the Maine woods. What first appears to…
Dead by Dawn throws Maine warden investigator Mike Bowditch straight into a survival nightmare. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, Mike crashes his Jeep into a frozen river and barely escapes alive. Stranded in brutal conditions, cut off…