June 13, 2016 | madame librarian
Looking for a good mystery and a way to earn the Connect Your Summer 2016 Super Bookworm: My Mitten badge? Check out this selection of mysteries set in Michigan.
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 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. Buckular Dystrophy is the term coined by Conservation Officers to describe the condition whereby people cannot help killing deer, not for sport or food, but for other reasons - an addiction of sorts, and unlike other addictions, one not medically organized, but just as real.
When the remains of three little girls turn up inside railroad hopper cars, Sheriff Steve Martinez faces a troublesome case, for the cars had sat for years on a siding deep inside his beloved Porcupine County. After Steve and his comrades do the spadework, the FBI moves in, thinking their Unsub is both rapist and murderer. But Steve believes the killer--or killers--instead hired someone to dispose of the bodies. With the help of lawmen of all kinds, including the Ontario Provincial Police, and even Detroit mobsters, Steve doggedly tracks "the Beast." This intricate police procedural, set in the wilds of Upper Michigan, features not only an exciting high-tech chase around Lake Superior but also the revival of a clever World War II deception.
March 30, 2016 | madame librarian
Michigan author Joseph Heywood will visit the Adrian District Library on Saturday, April 23, at 1:00 p.m.
Heywood is the author of the Woods Cop mystery series featuring Conservation Officer Grady Service. Buckular Dystrophy, the tenth book in the series, was released March 1. In addition to being an author, Heywood is a photographer, artist, cartoonist and poet.
Following Heywood’s presentation there will time for questions and book signing. Copies of his new book will be available to purchase.
September 5, 2013 | madame librarian
A fete worse than death by Claudia Bishop
Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron
Dante's wood: a Mark Angelotti novel by Lynne Raimondo
Gun machine by Warren Ellis
In broad daylight: a Jess Harding novel by Seth Harwood
