Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493040529
Size: 17.96 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Strange things are happening to the black bear population in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The animal-parts market is highly organized, and its practitioners are ruthless and dangerous. Service finds himself chasing illusive poachers, and wrestling with the usual cast of eccentric and entertaining characters in the third Woods Cop Mystery series.

Author: The Monday Murder Club
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144053019X
Size: 73.29 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Why do they call Adelaide, Australia the "City of Corpses"? How many people did Agatha Christie kill with her pen? What was Jack the Ripper's supposed occupation? There's nothing like a little murder to challenge the dark side of your brain. This dastardly little volume is organized by the seven deadly sins, giving you all the gumshoes, guns, and gore you need to explore the sinister side of human nature, including: The worst villains of all time—from Hannibal Lecter to Charles Manson The bloody truth about forensics Weaponry to die for Private dicks, dangerous dames, and dubious characters The most puzzling unsolved mysteries Who's really gotten away with murder From amateur sleuths to serial killers, this murderous miscellany of crime—both real and imagined—is just the thing for a dark and stormy night.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781592280513
Size: 16.72 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Michigan conservation officer Grady Service is thrown into a tizzy when frozen bear gallbladders are found in the woods along with a murdered Korean-born professor.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493016989
Size: 71.60 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1617
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Get your fix of not one, not two, but three of the Woods Cop Mystery series! This triple-thrill pack includes three of Joseph Heywood’s mystery novels: Ice Hunter, Blue Wolf in Green Fire, and Chasing a Blond Moon. Each novel takes the reader on a suspenseful journey through the wild against vicious poachers and hunters. This package is the perfect introduction to this thrilling mystery series featuring conservation officers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493039571
Size: 55.96 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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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 Treebone. From the early 1900s to present day, Heywood shows the roots of Yoopers and how their influence has spread across the peninsula. Meet ‘Didit Dave’ and his sudden and unexpected promotion to police chief, a dead man who doesn’t make it to heaven but instead an old bar in Kate’s Bay, and several military veterans who had engaged in each major US conflict and managed to return home. This collection wouldn’t be complete without a couple classic Heywood mysteries featuring a new detective duo: Tribal police chief John Clash and Houghton County Sheriff Nayar Sekhar. One thing is for certain, the characters in this collection could only come from one place. For Yoopers who are far and away (and some who are not so far away), one thing is true for them all: They all want to return above the bridge ASAP. Heywood’s collection of stories shares why.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493051164
Size: 17.17 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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From the author of the popular Woods Cop Mystery series 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 Pinkhus Zakov had been partners in the far northern counties of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for years when in early 1917, Zakov suddenly disappeared. A year later, Bapcat and Jordy (now 18) get a summons to Marquette, by former President Teddy Roosevelt. (Bapcat had served as a Roughrider with Roosevelt back in the day.) Roosevelt tells them that Zakov was sent to Russia by the U.S. government to find Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who abdicated and disappeared. Zakov went into Russia in April 1917 and had been feared dead, until an urgent message comes through a Swedish diplomat: Zakov wants Bapcat and Jordy sent to Russia to assist him. In the midst of the flu epidemic, a strange, Russian-born American marine major named Dodge is assigned to lead them into and across Russia until they locate Zakov. They dive deep into the heart of the Russian Fatherland as the Revolution of 1917 turns into a full out Civil War, with a level of chaos, random violence, and blood-letting far beyond Bapcat’s imagination.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493040502
Size: 80.60 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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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 Service is in a race against time as an elusive poachers' ring chooses its final target: the blue wolf. For more on Joseph Heywood and the Woods Cop Mysteries, visit www.josephheywood.com

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493047191
Size: 21.73 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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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 Dark is the fourth book in the Woods Cop Mystery series and is a wild and is a riveting ride. For more on Joseph Heywood and the Woods Cop Mysteries, visit the author's website.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493040480
Size: 37.86 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Meet Grady Service: former Marine, now conservation officer, and the greatest fear of any errant hunter. In Ice Hunter—the first in the Woods Cop Mystery series set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and celebrated for its intricate plots and unforgettable characters—Service must call upon his every reserve to track, stalk, and capture the ice hunter.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493018256
Size: 67.69 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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An outrageous fishing memoir that spans the globe.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762795166
Size: 41.13 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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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. Protagonist Bowie Rhodes, UPI reporter and expert fly fisherman, had learned of the snowfly early in his childhood. It hatches every seven to ten years, never on the same river twice, bringing to rise trout so huge they would have to have lived forty years or more; trout so wily that they never allow themselves to be caught--or even seen; trout so hungry for this fly that they will risk exposure to rise for the hatch. The snowfly is the sacred quest of the most obsessed trout hunters, existing--it seems--only in myth and in a lost manuscript. Rhodes’s reporting brings him to such sites as the jungles of Vietnam, the labyrinth of Brezhnev’s Soviet Union, and a poisoned Canadian wasteland of uranium mines. His hunt for the manuscript, meanwhile, takes him deep into his own heart of darkness. Richly imaginative and sensual, the world of The Snowfly has more mystery lurking beneath the surface waters than our own. Or does it?

Author: Jim Dwyer
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874178126
Size: 20.27 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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As interest in environmental issues grows, many writers of fiction have embraced themes that explore the connections between humans and the natural world. Ecologically themed fiction ranges from profound philosophical meditations to action-packed entertainments. Where the Wild Books Are offers an overview of nearly 2,000 works of nature-oriented fiction. The author includes a discussion of the precursors and history of the genre, and of its expansion since the 1970s. He also considers its forms and themes, as well as the subgenres into which it has evolved, such as speculative fiction, ecodefense, animal stories, mysteries, ecofeminist novels, cautionary tales, and others. A brief summary and critical commentary of each title is included. Dwyer’s scope is broad and covers fiction by Native American writers as well as ecofiction from writers around the world. Far more than a mere listing of books, Where the Wild Books Are is a lively introduction to a vast universe of engaging, provocative writing. It can be used to develop book collections or curricula. It also serves as an introduction to one of the most fertile areas of contemporary fiction, presenting books that will offer enjoyable reading and new insights into the vexing environmental questions of our time.

Author: Robert Reid
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 0889844283
Size: 80.75 MB
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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‘Every time I leave the world of work, family and community to wade into a river with fly rod in hand, I enter a sacred space that sometimes finds expression in the written word.’ In Casting into Mystery, writer Robert Reid and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates—avid anglers, both—put ink to paper in homage to the venerable sport of fly fishing. Through text and image, they recall with fondness the ‘company of rivers’ each is grateful to know, providing a glimpse inside a sporting culture teeming with literature, art and music. Part memoir, part objet d’art and part field guide, Casting into Mystery will delight passionate fly fishing practitioners and armchair anglers alike.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493049658
Size: 23.86 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Grady Service, Detective for Michican Upper Peninsula's DNR, is running hot and cold--Chasing an eco-terrorist trained in the most advanced and explosive guerrilla tactics AND tackling an eighty-year-old cold case involving racism, gold, and murder.

Author: Joseph Heywood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493016822
Size: 52.59 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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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 ear for dialogue, and his vivid descriptions of hunting, fishing, and outdoorsmanship, these stories will delight Heywood fans and entice any reader who loves stories about the great outdoors or law-and-order. The game wardens in these stories not only have to contend with poachers, drug smugglers, and violent criminals, but they must also confront the challenges of being women in a wilderness law enforcement fraternity traditionally dominated by men.