REVIEW: The Poacher’s Son

A mystery by Mike Bowditch

The Poacher’s Son, the first in Edgar Award nominee Paul Doiron’s Mike Bowditch series, is set in the beautiful, vast, and treacherous wilderness of Maine. Doiron crafts a tortured, complex hero in Bowditch. Bowditch, a Maine game warden, struggles to prove his father’s innocence in the murder of a police officer, yet is haunted by his father’s past transgressions and inadequacies as a father. Bowditch’s investigation is inhibited by his colleagues’ disdain for his family, and by his own doubts in his father’s fiber.

Well-crafted and superior in depth to the cookie cutter mysteries of today’s most prolific writers, Doiron creates complexity in character and paints a vivid setting that leaves the reader craving the next installment. Fans of C.J. Box will find an intriguingly complex and troubled alternative to Box’s Warden Joe Pickett in Mike Bowditch.

— Cary Jones, Main Library, Charleston, S.C.

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