The Daily Mail recently called THE POACHER’S SON, published in the UK this month by Constable & Robinson, a “stunning debut” with “breathtaking story-telling” that left the reviewer “close to tears.” Read the full rave after the jump!
The Daily Mail writes:
A stunning debut from a journalist and native of Maine on America’s east coast, this story of a game warden seeking to clear his father of a double murder charge – including that of a local cop — reeks of the state’s woods, lakes and rivers.
Superb vistas are woven into Doiron’s description of Warden Mike Bowditch’s hunt for his fugitive father. No matter how much of a womaniser and heavy-drinker the old man may have been — he left the boy alone with his mother when Mike was still a child — Bowditch cannot shake the conviction that his father is innocent.
What follows is a chase across the wilderness, but there is far more to it than that. At its heart this is a tale of bitter betrayal, lost hopes and broken dreams. This is breathtaking story-telling — rightly described in America as ‘high octane narrative’.
The book has a tautness that is impossible to forget and which left me close to tears. It is also the first in a series. Its successor, Trespasser, also featuring Bowditch is on the way. Grab him now.
UK crime fiction fans, you heard ’em, go get your copy today!
