Customer Reviews:
 North Woods Fiction November 29, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the best one yet of an excellent series. It would be helpful to the reader to have read the others in the series as mention is made of previous incidents in pervious books. As a part time "Yooper" I heartily recommend this book and the series "Wood Cop".
 Superb November 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I started Strike Dog with trepidation, fearing that anything with "A woods cop mystery" on the cover would be way too suffocatingly enclosed and even terminally folksy. Heywood is excellent, easily the equal of Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, or Robert Parker. Grady Service, the "woods cop," is a universal character, by no means a type - he may cruise the Michigan Upper Pensinula in a truck, but he's as smart and real as Elvis Cole, Spenser, or Harry Bosch. Those authors are the standard for measuring any mystery writer's style, and Heywood's writing is pure pleasure - clean, sincere and unaffected. He knows how to keep a story moving, and the energy stays high. Let's hope he'll never fall into the trap that has caught so many authors of mysteries in rural scenes: falling in love with the minutiae of his characters' lives to the extent that they become unbearably dull. Heywood even makes the fishing details interesting, even beautiful. I'd drive 75 miles through the U.P. in winter to shake his hand.
Strike Dog, on the edge November 6, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have read some poor reviews of some of Heaywoods books. I have enjoyed all of the books so far. This story kept me on the edge for the entire story. I thought the violet was one person then another and so on through out the book. I couldn't put the book down and it made me late for work on more than one occasion!
I have not read the woods cops books in order, but I really enjoy the way that he devlops the charecters throughout his stories. I really enjoy the way Limpy Allderice plays his role in this book.
It was nice to see Haywood venture out of the U.P. and into other states. This book takes you around the country on the mission to find the killer.
I am still thinking about the ending, I just fininshed the book 10 hours ago. It did wrap everything up, maybe a little too neatly, however I did not see how it was going to end until I made it there.
Underappreciated October 16, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This author deserves a wider audience. He takes the reader places not seen by most. The ending here is a little bit of a let down, but the trip there is a trip. Heavily plotted, well populated by good characters, and well written, these books could be on the best seller lists.
A serial killer stalks our game officer hero, who uses skills and friendships to solve the puzzle.
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