title: Shadow of the Wolf Tree: A Woods Cop Mystery
author:  Joseph Heywood 
description: <DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>&#8220;Joseph Heywood writes with a voice as unique and rugged as Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula itself.&#160; And <I>Shadow of the Wolf Tree</I> is clearly his best yet!&#8221; &#8212;Steve Hamilton, Edgar&#174; Award-winning author of <I>The Lock Artist</I></DIV></DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&#160;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&#8220;Top-notch action scenes, engaging characters both major and minor, masterful dialogue, and a passionate sense of place make this a fine series.&#8221;</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&#8212;<I>Publishers Weekly</I></P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I></I>&#160;<DIV>&#8220;Heywood has crafted an entertaining bunch of characters. An absorbing narrative twists and turns in a setting ripe for corruption.&#8221;<BR>&#8212;<I>Dallas Morning News</I></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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  On a cold winter’s night, a goblin is caught stealing firewood. Then things
  start getting weird.
  
  
  
  
  
  I was a little sad to take down the huge old beech, a wolf tree three times as
  large as anything else around. Most likely, it stood there when the woods were
  fields—a marker between properties or just a spot for the cows to graze out of
  the sun—and it had remained after the farmers left and the fields gave way to
  forest once again. It seemed a shame, somehow, to cut it down, but it was
  dying, and besides, a tree that size was worth more than a cord of firewood.
  
  
  By the next winter I had it cut, stacked, and dried inside my shed, but it was
  buried near back, behind three other rows, and it wasn’t until January that
  I’d burned enough of the other wood to actually get at it. That’s when a
  strange thing started happening.
  
  
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