Mike Bowditch Books in Order

Rookie Maine game warden Mike Bowditch learns his estranged father, notorious poacher Jack Bowditch, is the prime suspect in a cop's murder. To clear him, Mike heads into the Maine woods and back into the family damage he tried to escape.

When a driver vanishes after supposedly hitting a deer, Mike suspects an old murder conviction may be wrong. Digging into the case pits him against prosecutors, locals, and a killer who has every reason to stay buried.

Exiled to a remote post near the Canadian border, Mike answers a blizzard rescue call that turns into a murder case. A frightened boy and his cryptic notebook may hold the truth, if Mike can survive the people who want it hidden.

Ten butchered moose on a wealthy activist's estate look like local revenge, until a human murder changes the stakes. Mike is pulled into a brutal fight over land, jobs, and power in eastern Maine.

Retired bush pilot Charley Stevens spins rookie Mike Bowditch a tale from his first year as a warden. What starts as advice becomes a sly, tense showdown with a mysterious North Woods hermit.

After leaving the Warden Service, Mike is drawn back when mentor Kathy Frost is targeted after a deadly shooting. Hunting a sniper means digging through Kathy's past and facing hard questions about his own future.

Two hikers vanish in the Hundred Mile Wilderness, and bodies gnawed by coyotes throw Maine into panic. When Stacey Stevens insists a killer is being overlooked, and then disappears herself, Mike's search turns desperate.

A troubled woman claims her missing son is Jack Bowditch's other child, giving Mike a half-brother he never knew. The search pulls him into snowy mountains, vigilante justice, and the violent shadow of his father's past.

While tracking destructive feral hogs, Mike uncovers a dead baby in a shallow grave. The grim find reopens an old disappearance and leads him toward neighbors with terrible secrets and no reason to let him walk away.

Mike accompanies Charley to visit a woman whose long-ago call for help still haunts him. Charley's story of a bleeding husband, a rabid bat, and rising violence turns into one of the darkest cases of his early career.

What looks like a hunting accident on an island off the Maine coast quickly falls apart. A dead woman walks off the ferry alive, and Mike has to sort out a secretive community, a missing manuscript, and a killer still at large.

On vacation, Mike is pulled into two cases at once: a suspicious prison assault and the shooting of a rare wolf-hybrid he once cared for. As both investigations close in on people he loves, he starts bending rules to protect them.

In a snowstorm, young warden Charley Stevens heads out to rescue a missing hunter. The deeper he tracks the man through the woods, the more he suspects this is not a simple search at all.

Retired game warden Charley Stevens vanishes after warning Mike never to trust a man without secrets. Mike follows the trail to an old warden's missing badge, a cold case, and powerful people determined to keep the past closed.

A dead man pulled from Roque Harbor is carrying a driver's license in Mike Bowditch's name. To clear himself, Mike has to untangle a strange impersonation scheme that has already terrorized locals.

After someone ambushes Mike on a winter road and sends his Jeep into a frozen river, survival becomes part of the investigation. To learn who wants him dead, he has to solve a suspicious drowning before dawn.

A couple's dream lake cottage becomes a nightmare when an unseen prowler starts taunting and threatening them. Mike and Charley step in, only to realize the owners may be hiding as much as the intruder.

Mike and Stacey kayak to a remote seabird refuge where researchers are being stalked and the founder has gone missing. By morning there are two murders, one disappearance, and nowhere to hide from the truth.

When Mike finds a bullet-ridden bald eagle, Charley is forced to revisit a case that once joined him with Mike's father, Jack. A wildlife crime opens into something darker, involving abuse, a missing young man, and a brutal moral choice.

During Mike and Stacey's engagement party, a late-night speedboat crash reveals a severed arm, and then two naked corpses. The hunt for the boater turns into a knotty lake-country murder case with a killer far more dangerous than he seems.

A teenager shows up at a Maine hospital with a rattlesnake bite, even though rattlesnakes vanished from the region long ago. Mike follows the trail to eccentric scientists, family grievances, and a killer with a very unusual weapon.

Trying to help a secretive builder and his young daughter, Mike is flown into the North Maine Woods and lands in the middle of a killing. Escaping captivity, he has to track a skilled fugitive through brutal country before another child is lost.

Mike suspects a grisly murder-suicide is not as straightforward as it looks. In a short, sharp case, he has to figure out what really happened before appearances harden into truth.

In 1990s Maine, veteran warden Charley Stevens investigates what looks like a tragic hunting accident. But the victim should have known better than to wear brown in deer season, and one missing detail makes murder hard to ignore.

A house fire that kills a man accused of murdering his son, and a second savage death miles away, hint at a vigilante pattern. As Mike faces career trouble and threats to Stacey and their home, the case turns frighteningly personal.