It is late May and Mike Bowditch has recently done
what some in the Maine Warden Service have long wanted---he quit. These days he
is working as a fishing guide. That decision had many consequences some of
which were obvious and some that were not. One of the not so obvious ones, at
least to Mike, was the fact that he wasn’t available when his friend and mentor
Sargent Kathy Frost needed him the most. Instead, she was with a rookie officer
when dealing with the call about a troubled veteran who might be suicidal.
Unfortunately, things escalated quickly when Sargent
Frost and Danielle “Dani” Tate arrived on scene. Fearing for their safety they
were forced to shoot Jimmy Gammon. The same Jimmy Gammon Mike had known before
he was deployed to Afghanistan where he would suffer severe wounds thanks to an
IED. Jimmy died in his parent’s barn and
the officers are on suspension and being investigated.
The family is outraged as are many other people and
both officers are receiving threats. Somebody may have decided not to wait for the
investigation into the shooting to conclude. Who fired the shots at her home that
killed her dog, Pluto, and gravely wounded Kathy Frost is one of the many
questions Mike Bowditch intends to answer. He faces an uphill battle because of
his status as a civilian and numerous complications via various secondary
storylines. Sticking in his nose in things and being his normal obstinate self
is going to cost--- the real question is just how much.
Fifth in a great series that started with The
Poacher’s Son author Paul Doiron continues to bring the beauty of
the Maine woods alive for readers in ways that few authors can achieve. He also
mixes in plenty of mystery, adventure, and humanity making all the characters--
major and minor-- fully fleshed out people and not caricatures. Award winning
Paul Doiron has crafted another very good book in an excellent series that shows
no sign of stopping. Like all really good ones, this is a series that is best
read in order.
The
Bone Orchard
Paul
Doiron
Minotaur
Books
ISBN#
978-1-250-03488-5
Hardback
(also available in e-book
$25.99
306
Pages
Material supplied by the good folks of the Plano
Texas Public Library System.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2014
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