Woods cop mysteries
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1) Ice hunter
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English
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In a brilliant debut to a thrilling series, Grady Service gets news that his nemesis, the head of an incestuous clan of poachers, is to be released from prison. But something even more sinister is afoot in the Mosquito Wilderness. Service must call upon his every reserve to track, stalk, and capture the "ice hunter."
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Woods cop mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Woods cop mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
346 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm
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English
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Another suspenseful who-done-it finds Grady Service with an unexpectedly complex, truly rotten, and important case on his hands. This time tainted eggs are showing up in caviar and Service must expose?a?ring of corruption in state government and perhaps within his own beloved DNR, one that could lead him all the way to the top.
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Woods cop mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2010.
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339 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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The discovery of skeletal remains sheds troubling light on an eighty-year-old cold case involving racism, gold, and murder. Combine that with a present-day ecoterrorist, a thriving crystal meth industry, and Service's particular brand of grizzled, sexually tense, and action-packed police work for a hardboiled crime novel of the great outdoors.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
366 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Grady Service, detective for Michigan Upper Peninsula's DNR, investigates a case on the shores of Lake Superior involving "bleeding sand" and a centuries-old mystery surrounding a Native American archaeological site...not to mention an enormous forest fire"--Jacket.
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Woods cop mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
394 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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Every fall in northern Michigan brings a spate of dogman sightings. A radio DJ's invention, the dogman was created as an attention-getting joke. But millions of Michiganders believe in angels and vampires, werewolves, Bigfoot . . . and the dogman. Late summer, the horribly mutilated bodies of two Native American girls are found in a tent in a remote campground in the Huron Mountains. Grady Service, who wants nothing more than to return to patrolling...
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The traditional firearm deer season in Michigan lasts two weeks, a time in which the most hunters are afield during the year and the time when most things happen. Game wardens cannot count on having any life but work during this period, and in this case Grady Service, who takes longtime violator and archrival Limpy Allerdyce on as his partner for deer season runs into the most bizarre string of big cases involving deer that he has ever encountered....
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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303 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"In the eleventh Woods Cop Mystery, Conservation Officer Grady Service is on unpaid suspension but continues to voluntarily patrol the Mosquito Wilderness. He senses political shenanigans-an old foe lurking in the shadows and it seems someone wants to illegally commercialize the Mosquito. Grady realizes if he doesn't stop it, the wilderness will be destroyed. The tight story unfolds like a poker game, with one side bluffing and raising, while the...
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Hard Ground is a treasure chest of stories for lovers of the outdoors, fans of smart crime fiction, and, of course, the legions of Joseph Heywood fans. Featuring the game-warden colleagues of Woods Cop star Grady Service, the tales in this collection follow the men and women patrolling Michigan's wilds as they encounter everything from poachers determined to defend their kills with deadly resistance to drug pushers selling their wares at an...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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The eccentric characters of the Michigan wilderness populate Heywood's short stories (some only six pages long) with sparkling dialogue among challenging situations. The game wardens in these stories must contend with poachers, drug smugglers, violent deaths-- and the trials of being women in a wilderness law enforcement fraternity.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
vii, 246 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A guide to the words and language-especially the creative misuse of both-of Limpy Allerdyce and the Yooper pallaver of the Upper Peninsula Shores, for readers of the Woods Cop and Lute Batcap mystery series"--