Trespasser
A Novel
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4.0 • 191 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In Paul Doiron's riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch's quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before.
While on patrol one foggy March evening, Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. When the game warden arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road—but both the driver and the deer have vanished. And the state trooper assigned to the accident appears strangely unconcerned.
The details of the disappearance seem eerily familiar. Seven years earlier, a jury convicted lobsterman Erland Jefferts of the rape and murder of a wealthy college student and sentenced him to life in prison. For all but his most fanatical defenders, justice was served. But when the missing woman is found brutalized in a manner that suggests Jefferts may have been framed, Bowditch receives an ominous warning from state prosecutors to stop asking questions.
For Bowditch, whose own life was recently shattered by a horrific act of violence, doing nothing is not an option. His clandestine investigation reopens old wounds between Maine locals and rich summer residents and puts both his own life and that of the woman he loves in jeopardy. As he closes in on his quarry, he suddenly discovers how dangerous his opponents are, and how far they will go to prevent him from bringing a killer to justice.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Doiron's compelling sequel to his debut, The Poacher's Son, troubled 25-year-old Mike Bowditch, a Maine game warden, is still coming to grips with the realization that his estranged father now deceased has become known as the state's most notorious murderer. Bowditch finds solace in his job, but when he investigates a car accident involving a deer on a remote stretch of road, the driver, 23-year-old Ashley Kim, from Cambridge, Mass., has disappeared. Later, in an empty house, he finds Kim's naked body, bound with sailor's rigging tape, with the word slut carved into her chest. As Bowditch becomes increasingly obsessed with finding the killer, he puts his already tenuous career in jeopardy as well as his equally tenuous relationship with his possibly pregnant girlfriend. Doiron complements this thriller's decidedly dark tone with introspective existential and spiritual musings and atmospheric imagery (houses in a fishing village "clung like barnacles" around a harbor). 15-city author tour.
Customer Reviews
Trespasser. Paul Doiron
Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is trying to find a missing woman who was in a car crash. She called for a tow truck, then told the dispatcher a friend was picking her up. The crash occurred when she hit a deer. What puzzled Mike was the deer was gone when he arrived at the scene as well as her. He starts to investigate and findly determines she was working for an extremely wealthy couple who lived nearby. WHen he arrives at the location by looking thru a window he sees a body lying on the floor and blood. He breaks into the location confirms the dead man and finds the missing woman upstairs lying in a bed dead. Her nose and mouth were covered by date and she died by suffocation. It was later determined she had been brutally beaten and raped. Identical to a crime comitted a few years back with a suspect in prison. Then another women is brutally beaten and raped in a similar fashion. Is the wrong suspect in custody or was this two killers? What unfolds is a tale of deception, with a thousand twists and turns. Another excellent read!! Enjoyed immensely!!
Love the book!
Amazing book in a great series. I was drawn in the entire novel !
Trespasser
Coming off of Joe Pickett's series by C.J. Box I thought (hoped) that this series would be a good one too. I really resonated with what Box said in his series. In the Maine warden series, I am finding the author's views, as expressed through his protagonist, incompatible with my own. Atheist, Female Boss who met all physical requirements for the job, pro global warming, all too left of center for my liking. I won't finish this book and won't buy another.