Mystery
Paul Doiron (Mike Bowditch) Books in Order
by Paul Doiron
Maine game warden Mike Bowditch patrols some of the most remote wilderness in the eastern US — and keeps finding himself at the center of murder investigations. Paul Doiron's award-winning series is among the finest in American regional crime fiction.
About the series
Paul Doiron's Mike Bowditch series features a Maine game warden whose beat is the vast, unforgiving wilderness of the state's backcountry. Equal parts rugged outdoor adventure and tightly plotted mystery, each novel immerses readers in the landscape, culture, and wildlife of rural Maine while delivering genuinely surprising crime plots. The debut, The Poacher's Son (2010), won the Barry Award and Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel and immediately established Doiron as one of the finest voices in regional crime fiction.
Recommended reading order
Read in publication order from The Poacher's Son onward. Bowditch's personal life — his complicated family history, romantic relationships, and professional development — evolves substantially across the series, and payoffs are richer when read in sequence. Note that The Bear Trap is a short story set between books 4 and 5.
Reading order
18 books · Ongoing