About B.D. Smith
Before he turned to writing fiction, he wrote numerous articles and books on the origins of agriculture and other topics. Smith is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Smith and his wife live in Bowerbank, Maine during the summer and Santa Fe, New Mexico in the winter. Bowerbank is the same city that he sets his “Doug Bateman Mystery” series in. “The Ice Maiden” is the first novel in the “Doug Bateman Mystery” series and was released in 2017. His personal life is currently on the rocks, so catching this killer might just be his only chance at redemption. Doug Bateman is barely keeping things together, at the moment. With his marriage crumbling and still grieving the death of his son, this Maine State Police Detective’s connections to h
Publication Order of Doug Bateman Mystery Books
3 books in seriesPublication Order
- The Ice Maiden(2017)
- Black Frog(2019)
- Dead to the World(2021)
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- Red Mound(2026)
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