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Paul Doiron’s latest mystery, Trespasser, features Mike Bowditch, Maine Game Warden, as the main character. In this riveting thriller, Bowditch is called out on a cold and foggy night to check on a car-deer accident. When he arrives on the scene, there is blood on the highway and a damaged car, but both deer and driver are missing. After a quick search of the area and finding nothing suspicious, Bowditch assumes that the driver has found a ride. The body of a brutally murdered young woman is found, and the circumstances are similar to a previously committed crime. Bowditch is haunted by the murder–unable to avoid feeling that he might have prevented it if he had searched harder for the woman on the night of the accident. He disregards orders to leave the case to the police and in doing so, puts himself and his loved ones in danger. Doiron’s descriptions of Maine and the spring thaw–the mud season–make the reader feel the cold and damp as well as the pure pleasure of the first warm, sunny day of the year. This is an exciting page-turner with characters that won’t soon be forgotten. The Poacher’s Son is the first book in this series and is also an exciting mystery!~