Joseph Heywood Books in Order
Joseph Heywood has written 24 books, published between 1985 and 2024. The first book is Taxi Dancer (1985) and the newest is Out of Service (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 24
- Published
- 1985–2024
- Confirmed
- 24 of 24 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,800 in 13 of 24 books
- Reading time
- 80–120 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,800 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 24 titles with a page count on record.
Grady Service, a game warden in Michigan, carries Joseph Heywood's Woods Cop Mysteries, which begin with Ice Hunter (2001) and continue through Blue Wolf In Green Fire (2002), Chasing a Blond Moon (2003), Running Dark (2005) and Strike Dog (2007). Heywood's catalogue also holds the Lute Bapcat and Beau Valentine series, standalone novels such as The Berkut (1987) and The Snowfly (2000), and non-fiction touching trout fishing. Twenty-four books reach Out of Service in 2024.
How many Joseph Heywood books are there?
Joseph Heywood has 24 books, released between 1985 and 2024. They include 3 separate series.
Joseph Heywood Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 24 Joseph Heywood books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 11985–3/4
- 21987–3/4
- 319925523/4
- 420004643/4
- 52001–3/4
- 62002–3/4
- 7Covered Waters: Tempests of a Nomadic TrouterJoseph Heywood Non-Fiction #12003 · 240 pages · confirmed 3/420032403/4
- 820034803/4
- 92005–3/4
- 102007–3/4
- 1120084323/4
- 122010–3/4
- 1320114323/4
- 142012–3/4
- 1520132183/4
- 162013–3/4
- 1720143353/4
- 182015–3/4
- 1920163523/4
- 2020183033/4
- 2120192803/4
- 2220203923/4
- 232023–3/4
- 2420243203/4
Joseph Heywood characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Woods Cop books in order 14 books
Joseph Heywood books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Woods Cop Mysteries in order
14 books- 1. Ice Hunter
- 1. Hard Ground
- 2. Blue Wolf In Green Fire
- 2. Harder Ground
- 3. Chasing a Blond Moon
- 4. Running Dark
- 5. Strike Dog
- 6. Death Roe
- 7. Shadow of the Wolf Tree
- 8. Force of Blood
- 9. Killing a Cold One
- 10. Buckular Dystrophy
- and 2 more in the table above
Joseph Heywood Standalone Novels
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Lute Bapcat in order
3 booksBeau Valentine in order
2 booksJoseph Heywood Non-Fiction
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Joseph Heywood books in order?
You only need to read Joseph Heywood books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Joseph Heywood
Start with Ice Hunter (2001), the first Woods Cop book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Taxi Dancer (1985).
What is the newest Joseph Heywood book?
Out of Service (2024) is the newest Joseph Heywood book released so far.
Is there a new Joseph Heywood book coming?
No next Joseph Heywood book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Joseph Heywood at a glance
- Still publishing
- Joseph Heywood published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Joseph Heywood books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,800 pages across the 13 of 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Joseph Heywood books, 10 of 24, were published in the 2010s.
What the Joseph Heywood books are about
21 of the 24 Joseph Heywood books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: michigan is tagged on 14 of 21. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Michigan 14 of 21 books
- Mystery & detective 11 of 21 books
- Game wardens 6 of 21 books
- American literature 3 of 21 books
- Grady Service (Fictitious character) 3 of 21 books
- Crime 2 of 21 books
- Suspense 2 of 21 books
- Thrillers 2 of 21 books
- Trout fishing 2 of 21 books