Harder ground : more woods cop stories

Summary: The eccentric characters of the Michigan wilderness populate Heywood's short stories (some only six pages long) with sparkling dialogue among challenging situations. The game wardens in these stories must contend with poachers, drug smugglers, violent deaths-- and the trials of being women in a wilderness law enforcement fraternity.

Record details

ISBN: 9781493009022
ISBN: 1493009028
Physical Description: print
246 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

First day of the last day of the world -- Gravy and bear breath -- Working the problem -- The roadrunner should make you laugh -- Bambigumbo yumyum -- Leprechauns -- Reality -- FTO -- Midsummer day's night -- The real Twelve Mike -- Basket case -- Fishing for glory -- Gulf of goths -- Heads, tails, and other vague body parts -- Dancing hula in Felony Forest -- Trailer fly -- Three hours in the chair of wisdom -- One and one is a future crowd -- Mile-high humble pie -- Facing perfection -- Flier's club -- Hard as nails -- Just one more second -- Omaha! Blue! -- Dogskin, the Olympian -- Games for names -- Two-riffic -- Facings -- My perfect Italian.