Widowmaker
Widowmaker begins when a troubled woman named Amber Langstrom appears outside Maine game warden Mike Bowditch’s home with a claim that hits close to his past. She says her missing son Adam, a convicted sex offender who has vanished from…
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The Precipice
The Precipice sends Maine game warden Mike Bowditch into the Hundred-Mile Wilderness after two young women vanish while hiking the most remote stretch of the Appalachian Trail. What begins as a search-and-rescue effort grows much darker when bodies are found…
The Bear Trap
The Bear Trap is a short Mike Bowditch story rather than a full-length series novel, and its premise shifts attention away from Mike’s own investigation toward one of the series’ most memorable supporting figures. The story centers on legendary Maine…
Massacre Pond
Massacre Pond begins with Maine game warden Mike Bowditch being called to the scene of a bizarre and ugly crime: several moose have been found butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Morse, a wealthy animal-rights activist who is buying large…
Bad Little Falls
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…
Trespasser
Trespasser finds Maine game warden Mike Bowditch drawn into what first looks like a routine roadside incident: a woman has hit a deer on a remote road, but when Mike arrives, both the driver and the animal are gone. The…
The Bone Orchard
The Bone Orchard opens with Mike Bowditch no longer serving as a Maine game warden after a family tragedy, trying instead to build a quieter life as a fishing guide in the North Woods. That uneasy calm is broken when…
All That Remains
All That Remains finds Dr. Kay Scarpetta facing a grim pattern of murders in Virginia, where young couples have been disappearing and later turning up dead in remote areas. The latest case becomes even more charged when one of the…
Body of Evidence
Body of Evidence begins when bestselling romance novelist Beryl Madison is found murdered after months of threatening phone calls and growing fear that she is being watched. As Virginia chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta works through the forensic evidence,…
Postmortem
Postmortem introduces Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner in Richmond, Virginia, as she is drawn into the investigation of a serial killer targeting women across the city. The case offers very little to work with, and Scarpetta has to…