Maddy’s Place

About the Book

Sex & Drugs & Rock ’n’ Bowl This is serious business. Newly promoted Chief Homicide Detective Jack Diamond’s first case is to solve the death of the town’s most famous resident, professional bowler Biff Bower. Bower’s body was found standing upright on the eve of his annual Memorial Day weekend bowling tournament. An illegal, grueling 72-hour winner-take-all marathon tournament. Detective Diamond’s previous experience is of a 20-year veteran beat cop, whose duties were consisted of berating jaywalkers and checking parking meters. Promoted out of necessity and working with a skeleton crew, Diamond must do most of the legwork himself along with Lydia, Biff Bower’s, mysterious, young personal biographer. Lydia was also the last known person to have seen Bower alive. Through Lydia, Diamond gets to know Maddy’s Place. A home for wayward girls that Bower frequented often during his turbulent youth. He gets to know the influences that he had on it, as well. Within Bower's fifty-year career and the people who shared his life may lie the clues that led to his demise.

About the Author

R.L. Bowden was born in Gardiner, Maine, a quiet man who lives in Central Maine with his wife, Karen and his faithful dog, Jasper. He is the author of two previous novels Undying and Redemption. He enjoys writing in his spare time. In the spring and summer, you can usually find him in East Boothbay with his family and his notebook in hand. He has worked in the Mental health field for the last ten years working with people with Disabilities and Mental illness.