ALSO BY PAUL DOIRON
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Massacre Pond
Bad Little Falls
Trespasser
The Poacher’s Son
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Author’s Note
About the Author
Also by Paul Doiron
Copyright
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.
THE PRECIPICE. Copyright © 2015 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.
The precipice: a novel / Paul Doiron. — First edition.
pages; cm. — (Mike Bowditch mysteries; 6)
ISBN 978-1-250-06369-4 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-6868-7 (e-book)
1. Game wardens—Fiction. 2. Young women—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Missing persons—Investigation—Fiction. 5. Wilderness areas—Maine—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3604.O37P74 2015
813'.6—dc23
2015013520
e-ISBN 9781466868687
First Edition: June 2015