Review: Knife Creek

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

Yahoo--Bowditch is getting more mature--still a bit impetuous and gets himself in trouble--but more thoughtful and observant. What starts out as a simple morning feral pig hunt with his live-in girlfriend, Stacy, turns into the discovery of a new born infant's body left in a wallow to be eaten by the pigs. In short order, Mike has disobeyed an order from the Maine State Troopers to leave the investigation to them. He approaches a near by home inhabited by a couple of strange women wearing bright red wigs. The younger woman seems familiar to him, somehow but he has no way to insist on entering the home and must leave further investigation to the Troopers after all.

Ah, but when he and the Troopers return the next day, the house has been abandoned and jerry-rigged to explode destroying in and any trace of its inhabitants. By now, Mike is convinced the younger woman is a UNH student who has been missing for the last four years. Further, Mike thinks she is probably the mother of the infant left so inhumanely as food for the feral pigs.

And so the mystery begins with the usual twists and turns and strange rural Maine characters, teams of investigators, including a retired Maine Police detective obsessed with proving the missing girl is dead and prosecuting the young rich guy last known to have seen her as her murderer. His relationships with Stacy and Dani Tate, a former warden who is now a Trooper and who has had a crush on him, also play a part in the story. Fingers crossed Stacy takes a powder--just my opinion--lol

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