Dead By Dawn by Paul Doiron

Maine game warden Mike Bowditch finds himself in a life-or-death chase in this pulse-pounding thriller from Edgar Award nominee Paul Doiron.

Picture this: you’re trapped beneath the ice of a frozen river, your Jeep submerged, your gun lost, and whoever just ran you off the road is still hunting you through the winter wilderness. For Maine game warden Mike Bowditch, this nightmare is just the beginning of the longest night of his life.

What started as a routine investigation into a wealthy professor’s suspicious drowning spirals into something far more sinister. The victim’s eccentric daughter-in-law insists it was murder, pointing fingers at a reclusive survivalist who was the last person to see the professor alive. But as Mike digs deeper into the tangled web of family secrets, inheritances, and lies, he discovers he’s gotten too close to a truth someone will kill to protect.

Now, with armed assailants on snowmobiles closing in and the brutal Maine winter threatening to finish what the crash started, Mike must piece together the hours leading to his ambush while fighting to survive until dawn. Every choice could be his last. Every shadow could hide his killer.

Dead by Dawn delivers the trademark outdoor suspense and intricate plotting that have made Paul Doiron’s Mike Bowditch series a must-read for thriller fans. If you love atmospheric mysteries set against unforgiving landscapes, stories where nature itself becomes a character, and heroes who refuse to quit when the odds turn deadly, this book belongs on your shelf.

The question isn’t just who wants Mike dead—it’s whether he’ll live long enough to find out.

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