Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Mankiller Coyotes? C’mon now.

The Precipice by Paul Doiron

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So this latest installment of Mike Bowditch, Maine Game Warden, unexpectedly hit home for me. The featured animal was not the usual moose, wolf, elk, or deer, but rather the coyote.  Friends, I live in coyote country (actually, most US residents do).  But they have been my neighbors most of my life. I live in Southern California in a suburban area that directly backs into National Forest land.  Not to mention that directly behind my back wall is a heavily brushy hill, with a couple […]

What? He Quit?

The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron

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cbr17bingo Free Meeting up with our old friend Mike Bowditch, game warden, it turns out that he is no longer a game warden!  Except for one of his first supervisors, Sgt. Kathy Frost, none of the rest of the folks he’s worked for have been too keen on him.  There is that odd predicament concerning the number of murdered people that seem to turn up in his vicinity.  He had been sent to the hinterlands of Maine for awhile now, but can finally take a […]

Mooses? Meese? Why No Plural?

Massacre Pond by Paul Doiron

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cbr17bingo Favorite Well, there is a massacre of sorts involved here, but Massacre Pond is identified as being somewhere else than this locale, and isn’t really involved with this story.  Makes you wonder who chooses a title, and I suspect in this case, it wasn’t Doiron. Anyhoo, the massacre victims consist of ten moose.  All shot point blank on a game refuge, and clearly not for the meat.  Someone (make that two someones) are clearly trying to send a message.  There is a season for […]

Nobody Asked the Zebra

Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron

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cbr17 B Oh, look.  Here’s another series I have gotten sucked into.  Fortunately, it started about 15 years ago, so I’ve got plenty more coming up to enjoy.  And unlike my precious Perry Mason, these all seem to be available at my local library, so that’s a good thing. Well, it looks like Mike Bowditch, Maine game warden, has been sent into exile for the crime of not paying much attention to his bosses, and having the uncanny ability to turn over murders in the […]

Death in the Pines

Trespasser by Paul Doiron

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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 […]

Come On, Guys, Bear Just Being a Bear.

The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron

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Seem to have been running into a lot of stories lately about the wilds of Maine, and its feral folk.  I can appreciate that, years ago we took a vacation through that neck of the woods.  Maine coast was lovely, and we decided to head back through the interior of Maine just to see what there was to see.  Walls of pine was what there was.  As a Western girl, I prefer forests that are a little less crowded, I think.  But it made me […]



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