![]() “You’re not going to believe this,” Volk said. That night, Tommy Volk, the warden who patrols the district next to him, calls Bowditch. ![]() ![]() The woman hadn’t come to him for a lecture in herpetology, but Bowditch was prone to over explanation, a character defect in himself he seemed incapable of correcting, which suggested he didn’t view it as a defect requiring correction. Bowditch launches into a description of the history of rattlers in Maine (i.e., “people wiped them out in the nineteenth century”). When asked for a description of the snake, she rightly suspects she’s not believed. Rattlesnakes have been extinct in the region for over a hundred years-so where did this one come from?Ī nameless woman on the phone swears to Bowditch, “she’d just seen a rattlesnake on her hike up Black Cat Mountain.” No, she hadn’t taken a picture because she ran away terrified. When a teenager arrives at a Maine hospital with a rattlesnake bite, warden Mike Bowditch is baffled. His personality, his relationship with his co-workers, and how he handles an investigation has evolved, although even then, Bowditch didn’t suffer fools gladly, nor he was reticent to share his expertise.Īccording to the Maine government, there are no poisonous snakes in Maine. ![]() ![]() “Snakebit” shows us Bowditch as a junior game warden. Dead Man’s Wake, the 14 th in the series, drops June 27th. “Snakebit” is a satisfying amuse bouche from Paul Doiron, a vignette from warden Mike Bowditch’s past that doesn’t follow the events of Hatchet Island, published in June 2022. ![]()
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