<p><b>The eerie, windswept <i>Hatchet Island</i> off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappearance in this thriller from bestselling author Paul Doiron.</b><br><br>A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to a research station far off the coast. Stacey spent summers interning on the island, a sanctuary for endangered seabirds, and they are shocked by the atmosphere of tension they encounter when they come ashore. The biologists are being threatened and stalked by a mysterious boatman who they suspect is trespassing on the refuge late at night. And now the sanctuary¿s enigmatic founder, whose mind has been slowly unraveling, has gone missing.<br><br>Camped on an islet for the night, Mike and Stacey waken to the sound of a gunshot. When they return to the refuge at dawn, their darkest fears are confirmed: two of the three researchers have been brutally m