Massacre Pond: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries) (38 page)

Bestselling author PAUL DOIRON is the editor in chief of
Down East: The Magazine of Maine.
A native of Maine, he attended Yale University and holds an MFA from Emerson College.
The Poacher’s Son
won the Barry Award and the Strand Award for best first novel, and has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity awards in the same category. He lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine with his wife, Kristen Lindquist.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

MASSACRE POND.
Copyright © 2013 by Paul Doiron. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Doiron, Paul.

    Massacre Pond: a novel / Paul Doiron. — First edition.

            pages   cm

    ISBN 978-1-250-03393-2 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-250-03392-5 (e-book)

  1.  Game wardens—Fiction.   2.  Animal rights activists—Fiction.   3.  Animal welfare—Fiction.   4.  Murder—Investigation—Fiction.   I.  Title.

    PS3604.O37M38 2013

    813'.6—dc23

2013009814

e-ISBN 9781250033925

First Edition: July 2013