Bad Little Falls Hardcover - 2012

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Anthony- and Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" ("Booklist") with his newest harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm

Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile,
transferred by his superiors to a remote outpost on the Canadianborder. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch is
called to the rustic cabin of a terrified couple. A raving and halffrozenman has appeared at their door, claiming his friend is lost
in the storm. But what starts as a rescue mission in the wildernesssoon becomes a baffling murder investigation. The dead man is a
notorious drug dealer, and state police detectives suspect it washis own friend who killed him. Bowditch isn't so sure, but his
vow not to interfere in the case is tested when he finds himselfpowerfully attracted to a beautiful woman with a dark past and
a troubled young son. The boy seems to know something aboutwhat really happened in the blizzard, but he is keeping his secrets
locked in a cryptic notebook, and Mike fears for the safety of thestrange child. Meanwhile, an anonymous tormentor has decided
to make the new warden's life a living hell. Alone and outgunned, Bowditch turns for assistance to his old friend, the legendary
bush pilot Charley Stevens. But in this snowbound landscape where smugglers wage blood feuds by night help seems very
far away indeed. If Bowditch is going to catch a killer, he mustsurvive on his own wits and discover strength he never knew he
possessed."

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