Strike Dog: A Woods Cop Mystery - Paperback

by Joseph Heywood (Author)

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, Walter. Service must navigate the terrain of his own grief as well as the killer's twisted mind. The fifth book in the Woods Cop Mystery series.

Back Jacket

Joseph Heywood ratchets up the suspense in yet anotherWOODS COP MYSTERY Grady Service, the hardboiled conservation officer of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is back with a vengeance and facing the most difficult case of his career. In Strike Dog--the fifth book in this superb series--a serial killer is knocking off the best conservation officers in each state. The killings are ritualistic and the victims are mutilated in a manner with roots in Viking warfare. Service learns he is next on the list. The FBI brings him on the case, both to protect him and because of his incredible tracking abilities. But Service needs no protection. He's out for blood himself. The killer has murdered his girlfriend, Nantz, and his son, Walter. Alone, and devastated, Service must navigate the terrain of his own grief as well as the twisted mind of the serial killer. In this brilliant psychological drama with nail-biting suspense, the hunted becomes the hunter. Service must draw on all he has learned in the jungles of Vietnam and the Upper Peninsula's woods to stalk the killer. Will his foe succeed in achieving his twisted glory of a perfect record? Or will Service be able to outwit him and enact his own grim revenge?

Author Biography

Joseph Heywood is the author of The Snowfly, Covered Waters, The Berkut, Taxi Dancer, The Domino Conspiracy, the eleven Woods Cop Mysteries. Featuring Grady Service, a contemporary detective in the Upper Peninsula for Michigan's Department of Natural Resources, and Lute Bapcat, a Rough Rider turned Michigan game warden in the 1910s, Heywood's mystery series have earned the author cult status among lovers of the outdoors, law enforcement officials, and mystery devotees. Heywood lives in Portage, Michigan.