I'm packing my bags and moving to Maine after reading this amazing, addictive outdoors tale by Paul Doiron. I see this is the tenth installment in his Mike Bowditch series - all I can say is where has he been all my life?
Doiron is a passionate author who writes eloquently about the wilderness and the creatures who inhabit it in his beloved Maine. With his descriptions the forests spring to life before the readers' eyes and the sounds fill your ears. His creation of Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch has given readers a hero all of us can admire and pull for. (Who could resist someone who cares for a gray wolf?)
The story opens when Mike receives an SOS phone call from one of his oldest friends - Billy Cronk. With reluctance Mike had put Billy in prison (leaving his wife and six children.) Nonetheless, Billy wants Mike to investigate a female prison guard with a suspicious background. Mike can't turn his friend down but all too soon there is a brutal outbreak at the prison and the guard is seriously injured.
A second phone call spells more trouble for Mike when he learns that Shadow, a wolf-hybrid, he had befriended, is on the brink of death - shot by an arrow of all things. As soon as Shadow is in the hands of a caring doctor Mike tries to find whoever had done the shooting but is blocked at every turn.
Almost Midnight is fast-paced, rich in suspense with a nail-biting finish all wrapped in the remarkable Maine countryside as only Doiron can describe it.
Don't miss it!
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