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Summary: A Unique Blend of the Outdoors and Whodunit Mystery
Review: Joseph Heywood's excellent second volume addition to his Woods Cop series! Especially for those who love the outdoors as seen from the sportsman's perspective, police investigation mystery enthusiasts, and most particularly those who have a personal knowledge of various locations and the culture in Michigan's Upper Pennisula (U.P.).While some readers may find Heywood's character development and geographic references esoteric unless they've read the first Woods Cop series novel "Ice Hunter", this text does stand on its own and offers several exciting plot twists, excellent drama, and is satisfying in that the finish is not predictable. Using the slant of law enforcement from a conservation officer's (a.k.a. game warden's) perspective makes this book a very unique offering.
Rating:
Summary: A Unique Blend of the Outdoors and Whodunit Mystery
Review: Joseph Heywood's excellent second volume addition to his Woods Cop series! Especially for those who love the outdoors as seen from the sportsman's perspective, police investigation mystery enthusiasts, and most particularly those who have a personal knowledge of various locations and the culture in Michigan's Upper Pennisula (U.P.). While some readers may find Heywood's character development and geographic references esoteric unless they've read the first Woods Cop series novel "Ice Hunter", this text does stand on its own and offers several exciting plot twists, excellent drama, and is satisfying in that the finish is not predictable. Using the slant of law enforcement from a conservation officer's (a.k.a. game warden's) perspective makes this book a very unique offering.
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Summary: Change of Pace
Review: This is a nice change of pace for readers of mysteries,
because it is about a Michigan game warden, and he works
in that "far off" world of the Upper Peninsula. This is
a nice introduction to the rather different life of a
game warden, who sometimes has to work like a regular cop,
but who also has to give priority to the well-being of
the wild animals he is to protect.
And how many game wardens, let along cops, get to work on
tracking down poachers whose ranks include professional killers of protected animals, foreigners, IRA terrorists,
and whose enemies include tight-lipped FBI agents and
Native Americans?
This guy has a maze of enemies whose relationships equal
those of a soap opera, and he has to sort through them like
the best of our detectives.
The story revolves around a mysterious explosion at an
unusual federal animal research lab on the shores of Lake
Superior, where 2 people are shot at close range, but where,
at the same time, 5 timber wolves escape. And when our game
warden arrives, he finds the place guarded by FBI agents,
with help from the Fish & Wildlife Svc and other strange
people. Plus, as he pokes around, he bumps into an Ojibway
game warden, who shouldn't even be there, but our guy, Grady
Service, hears about a very unusual "blue wolf" which is among
those escaping animals.
This is a nice, intricate mystery involving a large number of
people of all kinds, and it all takes place in the beautiful,
and sometimes lonely, U.P. of Michigan about the time deer
hunting season is to begin. It makes for a complex set of
characters, and this hero's march through the wilderness,
both natural and political, makes good reading.
Rating:
Summary: Change of Pace
Review: This is a nice change of pace for readers of mysteries,
because it is about a Michigan game warden, and he works
in that "far off" world of the Upper Peninsula. This is
a nice introduction to the rather different life of a
game warden, who sometimes has to work like a regular cop,
but who also has to give priority to the well-being of
the wild animals he is to protect.
And how many game wardens, let along cops, get to work on
tracking down poachers whose ranks include professional killers of protected animals, foreigners, IRA terrorists,
and whose enemies include tight-lipped FBI agents and
Native Americans?
This guy has a maze of enemies whose relationships equal
those of a soap opera, and he has to sort through them like
the best of our detectives.
The story revolves around a mysterious explosion at an
unusual federal animal research lab on the shores of Lake
Superior, where 2 people are shot at close range, but where,
at the same time, 5 timber wolves escape. And when our game
warden arrives, he finds the place guarded by FBI agents,
with help from the Fish & Wildlife Svc and other strange
people. Plus, as he pokes around, he bumps into an Ojibway
game warden, who shouldn't even be there, but our guy, Grady
Service, hears about a very unusual "blue wolf" which is among
those escaping animals.
This is a nice, intricate mystery involving a large number of
people of all kinds, and it all takes place in the beautiful,
and sometimes lonely, U.P. of Michigan about the time deer
hunting season is to begin. It makes for a complex set of
characters, and this hero's march through the wilderness,
both natural and political, makes good reading.
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