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Joseph Heywood
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
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The Berkut
- Jul-1987
- / General Fiction
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A lost classic by beloved novelist Joseph Heywood that helped put the writer on the map, THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel Gunter Brumm parachutes silently through the sulphuric haze in the smoldering ruins of Berlin, past the Soviet troops tha...
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The Domino Conspiracy
- Sep-1992
- / General Fiction
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Autumn 1960. Nikita Khrushchev is politically adept, visionary, and locked in a fight with the Politburo and a battle with Mao and the Chinese. His country and his political future are in trouble because he has opened doors to the West and espoused t...
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The Snowfly
- Oct-2000
- / Action Adventure
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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...
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Ice Hunter
- Jun-2001
- / Police Procedural
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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 u...
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Blue Wolf in Green Fire
- Sep-2002
- / Police Procedural
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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...
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Chasing A Blond Moon
- Sep-2003
- / Police Procedural
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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...
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Running Dark
- Jun-2005
- / Police Procedural
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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 ...
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Strike Dog
- Sep-2007
- / Police Procedural
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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...
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Shadow of the Wolf Tree
- May-2010
- / Law Enforcement
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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...
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Force of Blood
- Sep-2011
- / Police Procedural
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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...
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Red Jacket
- Sep-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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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...
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Hard Ground
- May-2013
- / Law Enforcement
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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 colle...
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Killing a Cold One
- Sep-2013
- / Mystery
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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. ...
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Mountains of the Misbegotten
- Sep-2014
- / Historical Mystery
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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...
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Harder Ground
- Mar-2015
- / Action Adventure
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A treasure chest of stories for Joseph Heywood fans, featuring the women game-warden colleagues of his mystery series star Grady Service. With Heywood’s trademark ability to capture the eccentric characters of the Michigan wilderness, his wonderful...
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Buckular Dystrophy
- Mar-2016
- / Mystery
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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...
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Bad Optics
- Apr-2018
- / Mystery
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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...
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Upper Peculiar
- Sep-2019
- / Mystery
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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...
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Beyond Beyond
- Dec-2020
- / Historical Mystery
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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...
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Limpy's Adult Lexicon
- Aug-2023
- / General Fiction
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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...
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Out of Service
- Sep-2024
- / Mystery
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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...
