{"title":"Paul Doiron","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Doiron\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts gripping crime and thriller novels set against the rugged backdrop of Maine’s wilderness. His stories often follow complex characters navigating dark mysteries, combining taut suspense with vivid descriptions of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect atmospheric plots that blend intense investigations with the subtle beauty of the outdoors, delivering a compelling mix of tension and authenticity that lingers long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"almost-midnight-by-paul-doiron-9781250102423","title":"Almost Midnight","description":"While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from Billy Cronk, one of his oldest friends and a man he had to reluctantly put behind bars for murder. Billy wants him to investigate a new female prison guard with a mysterious past, and Mike feels honor-bound to help his friend. But when the guard becomes the victim in a brutal attack at the prison, he realizes there may be a darker cover-up at play-and that Billy and his family might be at risk.\n\nThen Mike receives a second call for help, this time from a distant mountain valley where Shadow, a wolf-hybrid he once cared for, has been found shot by an arrow and clinging to life. He searches for the identity of the bowman, but his investigation is blocked at every turn by the increasingly hostile community. And when Billy's wife and children are threatened, Mike finds himself tested like never before. How can he possibly keep the family safe when he has enemies of his own on his trail? \n\nTorn between loyalties, Mike Bowditch must respond in the only way he knows how: by bending every law and breaking every rule to keep his loved ones safe and the true predators at bay.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240592912620,"sku":"9781250102423","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250102423-almost-midnight-1.jpg?v=1787921113"},{"product_id":"dead-by-dawn-by-paul-doiron-9781250235121","title":"Dead by Dawn","description":"Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in the middle of nowhere, having lost his gun and any way to signal for help, Mike fights his way to the surface. But surviving the crash is only the first challenge. Whoever set the trap that ran him off the road is still out there, and they're coming for him.\n\nHours earlier, Mike was called to investigate the suspicious drowning of a wealthy professor. Despite the death being ruled an accident, his elegant, eccentric daughter-in-law insists the man was murdered. She suspects his companion that day, a reclusive survivalist and conspiracy theorist who accompanied the professor on his fateful duck-hunting trip-but what exactly was the nature of their relationship? And was her own sharp-tongued daughter, who inherited the dead man's fortune, as close to her grandfather as she claims? The accusations lead Mike to a sinister local family who claim to have information on the crime. But when his Jeep flies into the river and unknown armed assailants on snowmobiles chase him through the wilderness, the investigation turns into a fight for survival. \n\nAs Mike faces a nightlong battle to stay alive, he must dissect the hours leading up to the ambush and solve two riddles: which one of these people desperately want him dead, and what has he done to incur their wrath?","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48241076076780,"sku":"9781250235121","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250235121-dead-by-dawn-1.jpg?v=1787932795"},{"product_id":"hatchet-island-by-paul-doiron-9781250893888","title":"Hatchet Island","description":"A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to a research station far off the coast. Stacey spent summers interning on the island, a sanctuary for endangered seabirds, and they are shocked by the atmosphere of tension they encounter when they come ashore. The biologists are being threatened and stalked by a mysterious boatman who they suspect is trespassing on the refuge late at night.  And now the sanctuary's enigmatic founder, whose mind has been slowly unraveling, has gone missing.\n\nCamped on an islet for the night, Mike and Stacey waken to the sound of a gunshot. When they return to the refuge at dawn, their darkest fears are confirmed: two of the three researchers have been brutally murdered and the third has disappeared, along with the island skiff. Mike's quest to find the missing man leads to a nearby island owned by a world-renowned photographer and his equally brilliant wife. The inhabitants of this private kingdom quickly close ranks, and Mike increasingly comes to believe that someone in the village knows more about the killings than they dare admit.\n\nWith no one to trust and miles from shore, Mike Bowditch must stop a ruthless murderer determined to make sure a terrifying secret never sees the light of day.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48242272305388,"sku":"9781250893888","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250893888-hatchet-island-1.jpg?v=1787969692"},{"product_id":"skin-and-bones-by-paul-doiron-9781250382122","title":"Skin and Bones","description":"For the first time in print, Skin and Bones features a collection of eight gripping original short stories in the bestselling Mike Bowditch series-including one brand new, never-before-published story-from Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron.\n\nIn THE BEAR TRAP, legendary Maine woodsman and bush pilot Charley Stevens tries to convince young Mike of the dangers awaiting rookie game wardens.\n \n RABID draws Mike into the story of a gruesome case involving a bat with rabies from his Charley Steven's past (2019 Edgar award nominee for Best Short Story).\n \n When a visiting hunter goes missing in the middle of a snowstorm, a young Charley Stevens sets off to rescue him-but begins to suspect the man may not want to be found in BACKTRACK.\n \n In THE IMPOSTER, Mike is confronted with a baffling case of stolen identity when he discovers a dead body whose driver's license claims he is none other than Mike Bowditch himself.\n \n Mike tracks down a sinister prowler who turns a couple's dream vacation home into a nightmare in THE CARETAKER.\n \n An investigation into the killing of a bald eagle in SKIN AND BONES unearths an old case of a missing young man whose physically abusive brother might have murdered him.\n \n In SNAKEBIT, Mike must hunt down a killer who uses the unlikeliest of murder weapons: rattlesnakes.\n \n (Brand New!) Mike suspects there's more to a grisly murder-suicide than meets the eye in SHEEP'S CLOTHING.\n \n Critically acclaimed for his brilliant crime novels, Paul Doiron proves he is also the master of short story in Skin and Bones.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244114718956,"sku":"9781250382122","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250382122-skin-and-bones-1.jpg?v=1787993217"},{"product_id":"stay-hidden-by-paul-doiron-9781250102393","title":"Stay Hidden","description":"A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly promoted Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, the case seems open and shut. 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Ariel Evans is alive, well, and determined to solve her own \"murder\" even if it upsets Mike Bowditch's investigation and makes them both targets of an elusive killer who will do anything to conceal his crimes.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244420575468,"sku":"9781250102393","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250102393-stay-hidden-1.jpg?v=1787994877"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/paul-doiron.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}