Review: Knife Creek

Knife Creek by Paul Doiron
My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Knife Creek by Paul Doiron jumped straight into the action without any delay which is a great way to grab onto the reader's attention. Mike Bowditch, Maine game warden, and his girlfriend start hunting some feral pigs in their district. The pair immediately find themselves in a situation of finding the body of an infant, which gets Mike to looking into a missing girl's case. The local detectives have previous experience with Mike, and are mostly unhappy about his habit of overstepping into investigations. He is immediately told to stay out of their job, but like in previous books, he finds a way to gain information and look into a few things for himself. Despite being told to stay out it, Mike makes discoveries that open a whole new can of worms.

Often I do not like detective type books, but good writing and a good lead character can get me hooked. I liked that Mike was determined to use his knowledge and sense of duty to solve the case and to hopefully get to the bottom of the dead baby. He has a strong sense of what is right and insists on doing the right thing for the innocent needing help.

The book is quite humorous, and I also enjoyed the descriptions of life and nature in Maine.

Several other books by this author are listed and apparently have the same main character. Previous investigations and situations are referred to a few times establishing a bit of a back story on our character, but nothing distracting from this story.

I was given this book before it's release date in order to provide an honest review.


Book description:

4.23 · Rating details · 613 Ratings · 110 Reviews
When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting wild boars that are tearing up the forest and farms in his district, he makes a horrific discovery—the body of a baby buried in a shallow grave. Even more disturbing: DNA tests link the infant to a young woman who has been missing and presumed dead after she disappeared from a group rafting trip four years earlier.

As he assists the reopened investigation, Bowditch begins to suspect that some of his neighbors aren’t who they seem to be. When violence strikes close to home, he realizes that his unknown enemies will stop at nothing to keep their terrible secrets. Mike Bowditch has bucked the odds his whole career, but this time the intrepid warden may have finally followed his hunches one step too far.


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