The Precipice by Paul Doiron

The Precipice by Paul Doiron

In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks.

When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along the entire Appalachian Trail-Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the desperate search to find them.

Hope turns to despair after two unidentified corpses are discovered-their bones picked clean by coyotes. Do the bodies belong to the missing hikers? And were they killed by the increasingly aggressive wild dogs?

Soon, all of Maine is gripped with the fear of killer coyotes. But Bowditch has his doubts. His new girlfriend, wildlife biologist Stacey Stevens, insists the scavengers are being wrongly blamed. She believes a murderer may be hiding in the offbeat community of hikers, hippies, and woodsmen at the edge of the Hundred Mile Wilderness. When Stacey herself disappears along the Appalachian Trail, the hunt for answers becomes personal.

Can Mike Bowditch find the woman he loves before the most dangerous animal in the North Woods strikes again?

Down East: The Magazine of Maine is edited in chief by best-selling novelist Paul Doiron. He is a graduate of Yale University and possesses an MFA from Emerson College. He is a native of Maine. His first novel, The Poacher's Son, won the Barry Award, was a finalist for the Edgar and Anthony Awards, and won the Strand Award for best first novel. Paul Lindquist, a Licensed Maine Guide, and his wife, Kristen Lindquist, live on a trout stream in coastal Maine.