This was sort of a mystery because some rich lady wanted to provide a new private park of timberland and someone killed or "murdered" some moose on the property because the hunters are against loosing the area for hunting-big whoop. And to prove how against this they are, they kill some moose. Like moose are pretty dumb, they'd walk right up to the muzzle of a gun and say howdy, shoot me! Later a daughter of the rich estate woman is killed by being run off the road or her own panic thinking she was being followed and run off the road.
For one thing, these aren't cops solving a murder, they're political junkies in Maine called Game Wardens. The game wardens who are out of favor are given crappy jobs and the others go and solve the crime wrong. Which is a typical small town b.s. as I did work with a small town PD and found the same stereotypical 'cop with a bigger dick' than everyone else while ordering people around without even following or allowing any facts. Been there did that. This novel is supposedly built around a real case of a slaughter of moose in Maine and it was never solved. A female Game Warden did work for years on the case and has found the killers but it's way past time to prosecute. Everything about the novel isn't factual, it's fiction based on fact.
If you like long tedious descriptions of Maine and care about who the main character, Bowditch is next in love with while sounding totally confused most of the time about who's lying or who's telling the truth. He has 'feelings' without any basis of fact. Anyways a few people die at the end. I won't give you any hints. If you like slow paced, descriptive, woodsy stories you'll enjoy this. For me it was a little slow, too few hints of facts, too little evidence of anything and the end for me was huh? You might like it. I gave it 4 stars for not putting me entirely to sleep, altho there were a few times...I did drift off.
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