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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a wonderful series, especially for those of us who are from New England and can truly walk the path that Mike is taking. I love that Shadow joined the cast again and can see how intense that might be as a relationship. And the Cronks. His friendship with them is touching. This Game Warden has a heart that has no limits. Mike Bowditch is a Warden Investigator who has two pressing mysteries, and they are both priorities. On the one hand he must identify the archer who struck down Maine's only known male wolf, and find a female wolf he is certain is out there. At the same time, his best friend, Billy Cronk, currently imprisoned due to testimony Mike had no choice but to give, begs his help and protection from a female guard. Ironically, the guard is seriously wounded, and Billy saves her life. This results in Billy being pardoned. However, there is a level of corruption so deep that the lives of Billy's wife and children are in serious danger. Can Mike work hard enough - and fast enough - to keep Billy's family safe? Can Mike find whoever it was that mortally wounded the wolf? One thing Mike quickly determined is that there is danger on many levels. This is in large part due to the vast area and peoples there in Maine. Furthermore, there is a high level of corruption and Mike almost single-handedly must sort it all out. Fortunately, Mike has uncanny skills and this proves to be life-saving. Almost Midnight is the 10th book in the Mike Bowditch series. Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to read the previous titles. I am really happy that I got to read this book as I managed to find an author that I enjoy. So, I will add this to my series spreadsheet and one day read the prior titles so that I can follow this in the future. Many thanks to Minotaur Books and to NetGalley for this ARC to review in exchange for my honest opinion. As Almost Midnight by Paul Doiron begins, Mike Bowditch is on vacation and fishing. He deserves it and needs it after being promoted to Warden Investigator and moving to his new area. He was enjoying his rare break until he got a phone call about Billy Cronk. Billy wants to see him and as always with Billy the matter is urgent and can’t be spoken about over the phone. Which makes sense since Billy Cronk is in prison as a result of the actions he took as he saved Mike Bowditch’s life. The legal system saw Cronk’s actions as excessive and he is now serving a prison sentence. The fact that locking up a man who, at the best of times, wasn’t the most mentally stable weighs heavily on Mike as does his guilt over testifying as there was no around the truth of what Billy did that fateful day. By telling the unvarnished truth, which Bowditch felt he had to do; his testimony was a major point for Billy’s conviction. Billy has been known to relate unhinged conspiracy theories before and Mike Bowditch has no idea if the latest situation is another one of those deals or not. On the face of it, maybe not. Billy explains that they have a new CO, Dawn Ritchie. She is a sergeant and a transfer in from another facility that was recently closed by the Governor. Billy wants Bowditch to investigate her and to do it fast, but quietly. Frustratingly, Billy absolutely refuses to say and then plays the trump card that Bowditch owes him. Bowditch is very aware of that, but for him to stick his neck out, Billy has to give him a reason. The blowback he would get over an unauthorized investigation would be immense and with zero justification he just can’t do it. Bowditch refuses. That is until with hours, chaos erupts at the prison with severe consequences for Billy, Richie, and others. What happened inside and later at the hospital is very complicated as are the background events that led up to the violence. As things escalate, Bowditch uses his vacation time to conduct his own unauthorized investigation into the case as well as deal with some other situations in two separate and meaningful secondary storylines. . The result of all these complicated situations and characters makes Almost Midnight another very good read in the series. As always, the human dynamics of various characters are interwoven with the beauty, often a stark and potentially fatal beauty, of the Maine wilderness. The character of Bowditch, as well as his relationships with others, continues to evolve making it very important to read this series on order. Those already familiar with the books and short stories will find another compelling and enjoyable read in Almost Midnight: A Novel. Almost Midnight: A Novel Paul Doiron http://www.pauldoiron.com Center Point Large Print https://www.gale.com ISBN# 978-1-64358-283-2 Hardback 455 Pages $38.95 My reading copy came from the Polk-Wisdom Branch of the Dallas Public Library System. Kevin R. Tipple ©2019 This is the tenth book in Doiron’s crime series featuring former Maine game warden and now newly promoted warden investigator Mike Bowditch. (In Maine, game wardens are full law-enforcement officers, with all the powers of state troopers: “They are the ‘off-road police.’” A warden investigator, on the other hand, is “for all intents and purposes a plainclothes detective.”) There have been other changes in Mike’s life recently besides his promotion. His long-time girlfriend Stacey Stevens, daughter of his father-surrogate Charley, a retired warden, left him and moved to Florida. Mike got a cottage near Bangor for his new job and has been dating Dani Tate for two months. Dani, also a former game warden and now a Maine state trooper assigned to southwestern Maine, would like more from Mike than occasional assignations, but he is still adjusting to life without Stacey. He appreciates the two-hour distance between him and Dani, at least for the present. Mike is on a fishing vacation when the story begins, but interrupts it after a summons from Billy Cronk, his buddy who is has been in prison for four years serving a seven-to-ten year sentence for manslaughter. Mike feels responsible for the prison sentence: Billy was defending Mike during the killing, but Mike felt compelled to testify to the truth of what happened. Now Billy asks for his help: there’s a new prison guard, Sergeant Dawn Richie, and Billy is suspicious of her. Billy claims it’s a matter of life or death. But Mike also knows Billy has gotten paranoid in prison so he feels reluctant to go on a wild goose chase. Mike’s vacation gets cut short by a second issue as well: a fellow warden found Shadow, the wolf-dog hybrid rescued by Mike. Shadow had been shot by an arrow and is in mortal danger. A vet is tending to Shadow but told Mike she didn’t hold out much hope for his survival. Things got more complicated fast. Soon after Mike’s visit, there was a big fight at Billy’s prison and two guards were killed and one was wounded; Billy was in the room when it happened and was also wounded. It was he, however, who was credited with saving the life of the one guard who lived, none other than Dawn Richie. The Governor, in return for Billy’s actions, and also to score political points against his electoral running mate who convicted Billy in the first place, promises to pardon Billy. But Billy isn’t out of the woods yet. Someone wants revenge for what happened in the prison, and both he and his family are in danger. Mike uses the rest of his vacation to investigate these two sources of concern: who shot Shadow and why? And what really happened in the prison? The latter is particularly important so he can protect Billy and his large family, with whom Mike is close. Other issues relevant to Maine are also in play as usual in Doiron’s books, such as the fate of wolves and coyotes in the state. (Doiron quotes Swedish humanist Axel Munthe: “The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the case. He is in front of it.”) In addition, Doiron touches upon the opioid epidemic, and the increasing population of Amish and treatment of them by long-time Mainers. (Maine has the fastest-growing population of Amish in the Northeast.) And as always, because Mike is sticking his nose into criminal activities the perpetrators would rather stay hidden, his own life soon is in danger as well as the lives of the Cronk family. Evaluation: I love learning more about Maine from Doiron’s books. 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