{"id":8373,"date":"2010-09-14T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=8373"},"modified":"2010-09-07T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T22:16:27","slug":"the-poachers-son-by-paul-doiron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-poachers-son-by-paul-doiron\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is not the type of book I would typically choose.\u00a0 Turns out, I couldn’t put it down.<\/p>\n

When I go on vacation, I often look for books\u00a0that take place in the same locale.\u00a0 Since I was heading out on a vacation to Maine, this one fit the bill.\u00a0 Granted,\u00a0 it had also\u00a0received several excellent reviews, so I wasn’t just going by the title or the picture on the cover, though I’ve\u00a0 selected books that way a time or too, as well.\u00a0\u00a0Popular authors such as Nelson DeMillie, Tess Gerritsen, John Lescroart and C.J. Box were all singing the praises of this debut novelist, whose day job just happens to be editing <\/strong>Down East: The Magazine of Maine<\/em>.\u00a0 Plus,\u00a0the book also landed on <\/strong>Booklist’s<\/em> best crime novels of 2010 list.<\/p>\n

The Poacher’s Son<\/strong><\/em><\/a> opens with Mike Bowditch, a game warden in Maine, receiving an alarming\u00a0message on his answering machine from his estranged father, Jack, whom he hasn’t seen in two years.\u00a0 The next day, Mike discovers that his father is the prime suspect in the murders of a beloved cop and a lumber executive.\u00a0 Though Mike knows his alcoholic father makes his living poaching illegal game, he cannot bring himself to believe that the man is capable of murder.<\/p>\n

What distinguishes this book from more plot-based suspense thrillers is the realistic no-one-is-perfect characterizations.\u00a0 Also, the author seems to have a natural knack for pulling the reader into the setting, be it the rocky coasts or the\u00a0forested wilderness that makes up much of Maine.<\/p>\n

No,\u00a0I won’t\u00a0tell you the ending.\u00a0 But I will recommend that you read this book and that you\u00a0keep a lookout for\u00a0the series of\u00a0other Mike Bowditch mysteries to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not the type of book I would typically choose.\u00a0 Turns out, I couldn’t put it down. When I go on vacation, I often look for books\u00a0that take place in the same locale.\u00a0 Since I was heading out on a vacation to Maine, this one fit the bill.\u00a0 Granted,\u00a0[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1338,1339,638,331],"class_list":["post-8373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-family-dynamics","tag-maine","tag-murder-mystery","tag-suspense"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2b3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8373"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions\/8395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}