Mike Bowditch, 25, is the head of an avid Maine game. Considering his father, Jack Bowditch and Rum Pond (reading the debut novel nominated for Doiron's awards, Poacher's son As a preface to invader ).
Bowditch responds to the Dispatcher's phone to investigate the deer / car crash of Parker Point Road. He tried to find the red rental sedan and the blood stain of the deer injured in the middle of the road, neither the driver nor the deer.
What happened to the driver and the deer? Who warned the authorities from Smitty 's garage public phone two miles away about the accident anonymously?
The car rental agreement found in the glove shows Ashley Kim (23 years old) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the current driver.
A state soldier, Curt Hutchins, arrives at the scene just after Bowditch. He guarantees him to continue pursuing Kim. Because now it is a matter of the National Police. Bowditch is skeptical. Bowditch knows that something is wrong.
Bowditch is forced to investigate himself about the disappearance of Ashley Kim. He will join the help of the town clerk Mary Beth Fickett and legendary retired executive pilot Charley Stevens. Stevens made friends with Bowditch while looking for his father.
Fickett discovers that Hans Westergaard owns a summer house not far from the accident scene. Westergaard is also from Professor at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Kim / Westergaard connection is too close to ignore. Bowditch calls Westergaard's wife Jill and knows that Kim was a husband's research assistant. She also informs him, Hans has not been asked since he departed for the meeting the day before.
Bowditch and Stevens visit the large seaside Westergaard house and discover the corpses of Ashley Kim. The murderer carved the word SLUT on her body. With no signs of Westergaard, the initial suspension focuses on the romantic relationship between the two.
Seven years ago, a healthy handsome lobster man, Earland Jefferts, was convicted of murdering a 20 year old Nikki Donatelli. This crime occurred after drinking and temptation at the Harpoon Bar on a hot night in July. Interestingly, Bowditch knows that the word SLUT is engraved on the body of Donatelli.
J-Team, led by Jeffert's aunt Lou Bates, is determined to win him a new trial. The prosecution was convinced that it had a hard time to present evidence. They promise Bowditch to join their mission. He declines at first. However, considering the similarities of the Kim / Donatelli murder case, he finds himself involved in investigating Jeffert's beliefs.
Danica Marshall is an assistant prosecutor general who helped prosecute Earland Jefferts. She warns Boweitch to stop investigating the death of Ashley Kim and warns to revisit Jeffert's beliefs details, but she is often referred to as the "court's sex symbol" or "Black Widow".
Square Deal Diner is a gossip hub in town. Upon enrollment, Bowditch is subject to conversation during both the disappearance of his father and the murder of Ashley Kim.
Adventure is emphasized invader, Bowditch engages in the tracking of ATV ignoring death on snowy nights filled with ice and will entice the local Calvin Barter. Bowditch is convinced that the ATV truck is the perpetrator destroying Hank Burnham's possession: "I shifted to a lower gear, put out gas, aim for as much momentum as possible, freeze I did not lose traction on the surface. "
Bowditch met Sarah, his living lover at college. After her rich cultivation, she was attracted to the wild, love to the outdoors. "She acknowledged something of the wild under my clean outer surface, like many benign girls from the right family, she aroused by signs of danger.
Both in search of his father and current Ashley Kim murder affair, affinity for his danger aggravates their relationship. Physically and emotionally, the resistance to his availability has reached its peak, especially as it was pregnant secretly.
A well-written novel reflects the reality and often presents an insightful dialogue. One of the best lines invader It is worth contemplating that you will never really know anyone until you have finished your life.
If you read and enjoy criminal fiction, thank you for the new voice of Doiron. It will be easy to recognize over time.
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