The Caretaker
By Paul Doiron
St. Martin’s Publishing Group
This short story from the author of the Mike Bowditch mystery series takes a different tack: it’s told instead from the point of view of Charley Stevens, Mike’s mentor and eventual father-in-law. This story would fall early in the canon, while Charley’s still on the job and Mike’s still a hot-headed rookie in the Maine Game Warden department. Some squatters have taken over a property, and things are about to hit a breaking point. As always, plenty of suspense. This one just comes in a smaller package.