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The Poacher’s Son
Mike Bowditch #1
The Poacher’s Son (2010)
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The Poacher’s Son opens the Mike Bowditch series with a setup that feels both rugged and deeply personal: Mike is a young Maine game warden whose life gets thrown off balance when a double murder points back to the one person he’d rather keep at a distance—his troubled, poacher father. Set against the harsh beauty of the Maine woods, the book blends a manhunt with family tension, giving the story a raw, grounded feel rather than just a standard mystery. It’s the kind of crime novel where the wilderness matters as much as the case, and where loyalty, resentment, and buried history keep tightening the pressure around Mike as he searches for the truth.