Woods cop mysteries
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
While serving the land in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Conservation Officer Grady Service, an ex-Marine and expert tracker, stumbles upon a conspiracy of greed going beyond the usual poacher, into the world of politics and big business.
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Recently returned from fighting an unwinnable war against insurgents in Southeast Asia, Grady Service finds himself in a depressingly similar situation stateside. The portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula known as the Garden is the setting for another type of guerrilla war: one that sets Service and his comrades against lawless, violent natives who flaunt fish and game regulations that seek to balance the needs of those who make their living from...
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
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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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
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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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"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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Lyons Press, An imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2013,
Language
English
Description
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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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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....
11) Bad optics
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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: woods cop stories
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Harder ground: more woods cop stories
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