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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1987
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Lute Bapcat Mystery

1 - Red Jacket (Sep-2012)
2 - Mountains of the Misbegotten (Sep-2014)
3 - Beyond Beyond (Dec-2020)

A Woods Cop Mystery

0.5 - Blue Wolf in Green Fire (Sep-2002)
1 - Ice Hunter (Jun-2001)
2 - The Snowfly (Oct-2000)
3 - Chasing A Blond Moon (Sep-2003)
4 - Running Dark (Jun-2005)
5 - Strike Dog (Sep-2007)
6 - Death Roe (Oct-2008)
7 - Shadow of the Wolf Tree (May-2010)
8 - Force of Blood (Sep-2011)
8.5 - Hard Ground (May-2013)
9 - Killing a Cold One (Sep-2013)
9.5 - Harder Ground (Mar-2015)
10 - Buckular Dystrophy (Mar-2016)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • A lost classic of the historical thriller genre by beloved mystery writer Joseph Heywood. The Berkut revolves around an elite Soviet team -- Special Operations Group -- tasked in 1945 with tracking down Hitler, attempting to escape Berlin with the ai...



  • A lost classic of the historical thriller genre by beloved mystery writer Joseph Heywood. This sequel to The Berkut revolves around an elite Soviet team -- Special Operations Group -- called upon by Nikita Khrushchev in 1960 to join forces with a tea...



  • One legendary insect--enormous, white, and exceedingly rare--attracts trout of such size that they couldn’t possibly exist in the world as we know it. But in Heywood’s classic novel, such things can and do exist.     Protagoni...



  • 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 u...



  • A string of protests by animal-rights activists appear to have culminated in a double murder at a wolf lab, which releases into the wild a rare animal: a blue wolf. To the Ojibwa a blue wolf means luck; but if captured or killed, Armageddon. Grady Se...



  • Strange things are happening to the black bears of the Upper Peninsula. Grady Service is stumped until a Korean-born professor is murdered by cyanide-laced figs that contain two freeze-dried bear gall bladders. Sexy and suspenseful, Chasing a Blond M...



  • We go back in time twenty-five years to meet Service as a young conservation officer. Still fresh from Vietnam, but on home turf, Service has been tapped for an unusual assignment that threatens to be his last. Full of outrageous characters, Running ...



  • A serial killer is knocking off America’s best conservation officers -- and Service learns he is next on the list. The FBI brings him on the case, but Service is also out for blood. The killer has murdered his girlfriend, Maridly Nantz, and his son...



  • In the sixth title in the successful Woods Cop Mystery series, 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 Servic...






  • In the seventh installment in the acclaimed Woods Cop Mystery series, another suspenseful crime noir finds Grady Service, a detective in the Upper Peninsula for Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources, back in action. The discovery of skeletal r...



  • Late spring, 2007. Michigan in economic freefall, state budgets being slashed, politics reduced to nastiness, state jobs being erased, and personnel furloughed without pay. Grady Service, detective for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in the...



  • Woods Cop mystery author Joseph Heywood takes readers to an era when people had to be as hard as the lives they lived. Meet Lute Bapcat, orphan, loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a man who in 1913, with the enthusiastic recommendatio...



  • 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 colle...



  • 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. ...



  • In the sequel to Red Jacket, former Rough Rider turned Michigan game warden Lute Bapcat sets out to find a deputy warden who has disappeared from Ontonagon County, one of the Michigan Upper Peninsula’s most lawless places. Merely hours into his sea...



  • From the author of the beloved Grady Service and Lute Bapcat Mysteries and the critically acclaimed short-story collection Hard Ground, a new collection of stories, this time starring women game wardens and conservation officers in action and set in ...



  • The 10th installment of the beloved Woods Cop Mystery series! 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...



  • In the eleventh Woods Cop Mystery, Conservation Officer Grady Service is on unpaid suspension until spring, but -- stubborn as ever -- continues to patrol the Mosquito Wilderness, along with his complicated past. Service is off-duty through July 4 fo...



  • From the author of the Woods Cop Mystery series comes a new collection of stories about life in the Upper Peninsula. Heywood offers a glimpse into the world his best loved characters came from, like Grady Service, Limpy Allerdyce, and Luticious Treeb...






  • From the author of the popular Woods Cop Mysteryseries comes the next historical mystery thriller in the Lute Bapcat series. We last saw our hero in Mountains of the Misbegotten and Heywood delivers an even more thrilling mystery. Lute Bapcat and Pin...



  • From the author of the Woods Cop and Lute Bapcat mysteryseries comes a new book for the fans. When Heywood was writing his first Woods Cop novel, into his mind crawled a character called Limpy Allerdyce, who is a master poacher-predator-violator in t...



  • Just when longtime Michigan conservation officer Grady Service is certain that he’s seen it all, he learns once again that he hasn’t.After so many decades protecting his state’s natural resources, here he still is, undercover yet ag...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joseph Heywood has published 22 books.

The next book by Joseph Heywood, Out of Service, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Joseph Heywood, The Berkut, was published in July 1987.

Yes. Joseph Heywood has 2 series.