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Storm Tide: Mike Bowditch #16    by Paul Doiron Amazon.com order for
Storm Tide
by Paul Doiron
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Minotaur, 2026 (2026)
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* * *   Reviewed by Hilary Williamson

Storm Tide follows Pitch Dark as the sixteenth in Paul Doiron's brilliant series starring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch and the spectacular Maine wilderness in which he plies his trade. At this stage of the series, Mike is happily married to bush pilot/biologist/EMT Stacey Stevens, who is due to give birth to their first child soon. Their wolf hybrid Shadow is very protective of her.

This episode focuses on what seem to be vigilante murders - beginning with a wealthy entrepreneur (believed to have killed his illegitimate son) and a brutal rapist. Mike believes that 'someone is going after high-profile cases where the justice system failed'. As he investigates, he realizes that both he and Stacey are being watched. It seems that Mike is on the killer's target list - but why?

He survives one attempt by an accomplice of the killer, and gets a threatening text before surviving another - how many are in this criminal conspiracy? Collateral damage strikes someone very close to Mike before he traces the case back to his own past, and finally closes it. This is an extraordinary series, not to be missed!

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