Rabid
A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
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Publisher Description
In this Edgar Award-nominated short story in the Mike Bowditch mystery series from bestselling author Paul Doiron, Mike is drawn into the story of a gruesome case from his mentor Charley Steven’s past.
Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch accompanies his old friend and mentor, retired bush pilot Charley Stevens, as he pays a visit to a mysterious woman, the widow of a Vietnam vet, living in isolation in the Maine wilderness. Many years earlier, she had called Charley, then a young game warden himself, for help. She claimed that her badly bleeding husband had been attacked by a rabid bat. But in the succeeding days, despite her husband's increasingly erratic and aggressive behavior, his wife resisted Charley's attempts to help, arousing his suspicions that more was going on than met the eye. Was the husband the victim of rabies, or was he suffering from post traumatic stress disorder? The situation finally erupted into horrific violence, leaving everyone involved deeply scarred. In the devastating finale to RABID, Charley reveals to Mike how he uncovered the awful truth about what actually happened in their home so many years before.
Customer Reviews
Rabid. Paul Doiron
This is a novella of a case involving his good friend Charley Steven’s and his wife Ora. It center around the widow of a Vietnam veteran living in isolation in the Maine wilderness with his Vietnamese wife and their small daughter.Charley’s initial contact was responding to a call that her husband had been bitten on the face by a raid bat. Charley has his suspicions that the vet could possibly be suffering from a post traumatic stress disorder. Later Charley gets a cryptic message from his wife that something may have happened to the veteran or possibly his wife. He discoveries their bodies in the bedroom . The veteran with numerous knife wounds, the fatal one a puncture to his neck. She had one of her eyes removed and was brutally beaten.A very sad but excellent read!!