Bear Game

by D.C. Monahan

BEAR GAME is a portrait of rural life revealed not through the sanitized incisions of a surgeon’s scalpel, but the jagged gashes of a rusted splitting maul.Late autumn descends on the northern New Hampshire town of Sawyer's Grant, and a desperate search begins for a lost 10-year-old vacationer. Older residents recall an eerily similar event that rocked the town a half-century before.Hopes are crushed when an early snowstorm threatens. Yet, more ominous still are signs that events are being staged and people manipulated. Emotions are stretched to their breaking point as neighbor turns on neighbor and lives are lost. A last option remains in an implausible savior, an 80-year-old man drawn back to the woods he refused to ever again enter.Nostalgic and haunting, Bear Game is an ode to a place and time that holds tightly to its its church suppers, one-room schoolhouses, wise old sages, ignorant old farts—and most of all—its fears.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

David and Cheryl Monahan live in a small town in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire and a remote fishing village on the western tip of the island of Curaçao.

Reviews

[Vanessa O'brien · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gripping from page 1

I felt a part of this little town in New Hampshire where the characters' stories weaved together mystery and suspense that unfolded unimaginable twists of fate. This is a must read! Loved it!