Woods Cop Books in Order

Older now but still stubborn, Grady Service goes undercover once more, this time inside a murky religious-nationalist group operating in his state. Unsure whether he is facing true extremists or a crooked moneymaking scheme, he has to trust his instincts while his own agency keeps him at arm’s length.

After closing a wave of major deer cases with Limpy Allerdyce as his unofficial partner, Grady Service is suspended and stripped of badge and truck. Convinced politics are at work, he keeps patrolling on his own and uncovers a push to commercialize his beloved Mosquito Wilderness.

During Michigan’s frantic two-week firearm deer season, Grady Service reluctantly teams up with notorious poacher Limpy Allerdyce. What should be routine enforcement turns into a string of bizarre, deadly deer cases that expose how obsession with antlers can twist ethics, loyalty, and the law.

Two Native American girls are found savagely killed in a remote campground, and rumors of a legendary dogman spread through northern Michigan. Ordered to hunt the “monster,” Grady Service must separate folklore from human cruelty while tracking a very real, very dangerous killer in brutal country.

In 2007 Michigan is cutting budgets and hollowing out the Department of Natural Resources just as a strange problem called “bleeding sand” appears on the Lake Superior shore. With new partner Donna “Jingo” Sedge, Grady Service follows clues toward looted Native sites, wildfire, and shifting expectations in his aging career.

The discovery of old bones in the Upper Peninsula uncovers an eighty-year-old story of racism, gold, and murder. At the same time, a modern ecoterrorist sets savage traps called wolf trees and a meth trade flourishes, forcing Grady Service to confront danger from every direction.

When contaminated fish eggs begin turning up in high-priced caviar, Service is pulled into a case that runs from remote rivers to state offices. Exposing the ring behind the tainted roe means challenging corrupt officials, organized crime, and colleagues who may be on the take.

After a season of brutal murders targeting conservation officers across several states, Grady Service learns the killer has taken his own girlfriend and son. Grief-stricken but relentless, he joins a multi-state manhunt, trying to outthink a predator who understands the woods as well as he does.

Set a quarter century before the early Woods Cop novels, Running Dark follows a young Grady Service fresh from Vietnam. Sent to enforce fish and game laws in a stretch called the Garden, he walks into a guerrilla-style conflict that could end his career or his life.

Something is wrong with the black bears of the north woods, and strange deaths follow in their wake. When a professor is poisoned with figs laced with cyanide and bear gall bladders, Grady Service chases an organized wildlife-parts trade and meets a son he never knew existed.

After bombings and protests at a wolf research facility end in a double murder, a rare blue-coated wolf escapes into the Upper Peninsula backcountry. Grady Service must untangle politics, tribal beliefs, and a ruthless poaching ring before the animal becomes both trophy and omen.

Grady Service, a hard-edged conservation officer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, learns that the vicious head of a poaching clan is being released from prison just as suspicious fires and a killing rock his beloved Mosquito Wilderness. Following a trail of ash and rumor, he uncovers a threat far bigger than one outlaw family.