CBR17 Work
The thing to know about Maine is that the lower Atlantic coast bit is gorgeous. Portland to Bar Harbor and all the little towns in between, at least in the summer? There was a reason that all the money folk would spend the season here. But go up the coast past Bar Harbor for a bit, and it’s a whole other state. Still a few vacation homes, but a lot more hard-scrabble living, and there is nothing wrong with some road-kill venison.
This is the second in a series featuring Mike Bowditch, game warden. The first in the series, The Poacher’s Son, is a useful preliminary, by the way. Mike’s day job is to check fishing licenses and such, but rural Maine can be a foreboding place, and he keeps running into complications. Such as being called by a frantic woman to a scene where her car hit a deer. But when he arrives, the deer is gone, although it left plenty of blood on the road. Also gone is the driver of the vehicle, and the state trooper that arrives shortly after he does doesn’t seem overly fussed about her disappearance. Mike can’t help being concerned however that she has wandered off into the woods, looking for help, and starts to search for her. And what was down at the end of the road, at the end of the point? The seaside vacation home of a very wealthy and influential couple.
And off we go. I’m really liking this series, have already order the next from the library. And might I add that there seems to be a plethora of psycho killers in the woods of Maine. OK, that checks.