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"One of the Very Best Outdoor-Based Crime Dramas"
Pre-publication reviews of The Precipice have come fast and furious this week, and today it is Booklist's turn with another starred review:
“Doiron, like Keith McCafferty in Crazy Mountain Kiss (2015), manages to write evocatively about the wilderness while at the same time showing how it can be a deadly adversary. Not that humans aren’t even more deadly, as Bowditch discovers when he’s forced to go up against the drug-dealing Dow family, who terrorize the surrounding community much in the manner of the Ames clan in Jim Harrison’s The Big Seven (2015). This is one of the finest entries in a uniformly strong series that has quietly taken its place among the very best outdoors-based crime dramas.”
Keith McCafferty is an exciting new writer whose work I recommend, and I will happily take any comparisons to the great Jim Harrison — which reminds me that I need to add The Big Seven to my reading list.
The Precipice is "Phenomenal," says RT Book Reviews
RT Book Reviews has named The Precipice its Top Pick of the week and given the book its highest rating.
Doiron's series keeps getting better and better with each book, and his latest is no exception. He paints a vivid picture of the culture surrounding the Appalachian Trail; the inevitable culture clashes between the hikers and the small towns that rely on the tourism while resenting the commercialization create the perfect backdrop and a large backdrop of potential suspects. This will keep readers guessing — and biting their nails — right until the end. New readers can jump into the series here just fine, but we warned: You'll be compelled to read the rest.
All I can say is "Wow." And, "Thank you."
PW Calls The Precipice "A Taut Whodunit"
Publisher's Weekly has bestowed a highly coveted star on The Precipice, saying:
Doiron brings his gift for making the Maine woods live and breathe to a taut whodunit in his stellar sixth novel featuring game warden Mike Bowditch (after 2014’s The Bone Orchard).... Multidimensional characters and a high level of suspense help make this a winner.
Read the whole thing!
An Enthusiastic Early Review of The Precipice
The sixth book in my Mike Bowditch series will be out in less than two months now (on June 16 to be exact) but reviewers have had advanced copies for a while. George Smith, who writes for the Maine Sportsman and the Bangor Daily News, is the first to chime in:
If you’ve never read one of Paul Doiron’s novels, you are in for a summer of fun, because he just added novel number six to his group of engagingly fast reads of stories featuring a Maine game warden. And while I enjoyed every one of Paul’s novels, I do think he is getting better and better.
The dialogue is really good, something I always appreciate in a novel. The characters are well drawn – and I can only hope you don’t recognize any of them as living in your town.
The Precipice grabbed me right from the get go, and as I read I really felt like Paul kept me on the precipice, staring down into the fast moving water, wondering, guessing, trying to figure out who or what happened to those girls. And no, I didn’t guess right.
I appreciate the kind review, and I am crossing my fingers that you will find my new book just as gripping.