Backtrack is a Mike Bowditch short story rather than a full-length novel, and like several of Paul Doiron’s shorter series pieces, it shifts the spotlight away from Mike and toward his mentor, Charley Stevens. The premise follows a young Charley…
Rabid is a Mike Bowditch short story rather than a full-length series novel, and like several of Paul Doiron’s shorter works, it uses Mike as the listener to a darker story rooted in mentor Charley Stevens’s past. The official setup…
Bad Little Falls finds Maine game warden Mike Bowditch in professional exile, transferred to a remote outpost near the Canadian border after the fallout of earlier events. In the middle of a blizzard, he is called to the cabin of…
The River Is Waiting follows Corby Ledbetter, a young father whose life is already under strain from job loss, new parenthood, and a secret dependence on alcohol and pills when he causes a tragedy that destroys his family’s fragile stability.…
I’ll Take You There returns to Felix Funicello, the same character introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’, but this time he is an adult looking back while also being pulled into an unusual collision between past and present. The novella centers…
We Are Water centers on Annie Oh, an artist in Connecticut whose family is thrown into upheaval when, after a long marriage to psychologist Orion Oh, she leaves him and prepares to marry Viveca, the woman who represents her work…
The Hour I First Believed follows Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, whose lives are shattered after Maureen survives the Columbine High School shooting. What begins as the story of a marriage already carrying strain becomes something much larger, as…
I Know This Much Is True follows Dominick Birdsey, whose life is inseparable from that of his identical twin brother Thomas, a man living with paranoid schizophrenia. When Thomas commits a shocking public act, Dominick is pulled into a painful…
She’s Come Undone follows Dolores Price from childhood into adulthood as she tries to make sense of a life marked by family upheaval, isolation, and painful emotional setbacks. Told in Dolores’s own voice, the novel begins with her as a…
Snowflakes is a Ruth Ware short story rather than a full-length novel, published as the first entry in the six-part Hush collection. Its premise centers on a family whose fragile sense of safety begins to fracture as the line between…