Really? This Is a Debut Novel?
Review by Kim Cantrell
Meet Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch. It’s been a couple of years since he’s talked with his father, Jack; a man who is more interested in women, drinking, and poaching illegal game than he is in being a father.
Then one night Mike receives a desperate sounding call from his father. After two years, why call now? And why so frantic?
Soon Mike learns that a local police officer was murdered on the same night Jack called. And it’s really no surprise to Mike that Jack is their prime suspect.
Even though he’s lost the woman he loves and shunned by friends and colleagues who have no sympathy for a cop killer, Mike is convinced that his father is many things but a killer isn’t one of them.
Desperate to save his father, and more alone than he’s ever been in his life, he’ll befriend a retired warden pilot and take a journey deep into the Maine wilderness in an effort to prove his father’s innocence.
I read a lot of books. A lot. But I don’t think I have ever found a new author that had such a stunning debut. Doiron’s ability to create such vivid, intense characters and scenes is amazing.
The Poacher’s Son isn’t just another suspense thriller, but just as much a coming-of-age, so to speak, novel about a young man coming to terms with a neglectful father and the past that made him who he is today.
It’s easy to see how this new author became an Edgar Award Finalist. Paul Doiron is definitely a writer to keep your eye on. So get started now with The Poacher’s Son.
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