<p>Anthony- and Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" (<i>BOOKLIST </i>) with <i>Bad Little Falls</i>, his newest harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm</p><br><p>Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile,<br>transferred by his superiors to a remote outpost on the Canadian<br>border. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch is<br>called to the rustic cabin of a terrified couple. A raving and halffrozen<br>man has appeared at their door, claiming his friend is lost<br>in the storm. But what starts as a rescue mission in the wilderness<br>soon becomes a baffling murder investigation. The dead man is a<br>notorious drug dealer, and state police detectives suspect it was<br>his own friend who killed him. Bowditch isn't so sure, but his<br>vow not to interfere in the case is tested when he finds himself<br>powerfully attracted to a beautiful woman with a dark past and<br>a troubled young son. The boy seems to know something about<br>what really happened in the blizzard, but he is keeping his secrets<br>locked in a cryptic notebook, and Mike fears for the safety of the<br>strange child. Meanwhile, an anonymous tormentor has decided<br>to make the new warden's life a living hell. Alone and outgunned,<br>Bowditch turns for assistance to his old friend, the legendary<br>bush pilot Charley Stevens. But in this snowbound landscape -- <br>where smugglers wage blood feuds by night -- help seems very<br>far away indeed. If Bowditch is going to catch a killer, he must<br>survive on his own wits and discover strength he never knew he<br>possessed.</p>
