Joseph Heywood is the author of Covered Waters (Lyons), The Berkut, Taxi Dancer, The Domino Conspiracy, the eight novels comprising the Woods Cop Mystery series, and Red Jacket (A Lute Bapcat Mystery). Featuring Grady Service, a detective in the Upper Peninsula for Michigan's Department of Natural Resources, the Woods Cop Mysteries have earned its author cult status among lovers of the outdoors, law enforcement officials, and mystery devotees. Heywood lives in Portage, Michigan. Visit the author's web site at www.josephheywood.com.
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"A truly wonderful, wild, funny and slightly crazy novel about fly fishing. The Snowfly ranks with the best this modern era has produced." --San Francisco Chronicle "A magical whirlwind of a novel, squarely in the tradition of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato and Jim Harrison's Legends of the Fall." --Howard Frank Mosher, author of The Fall of the Year and others"The Snowfly is as much about fishing as Moby Dick is about whaling." --Library Journal"Fly-fishing legend meets global adventure in Heywood's sparkling, ambitious novel. . . . an engrossing bildungsroman. . . . part Tom Robbins, part David Copperfield." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "If The Snowfly becomes a movie, it will blast A River Runs Through It out of the water." --Fly Angler's Online Book Review"...a finely tuned plot and masterful, literary craftsmanship. It will stand with The River Why as the finest of its kind." --Riverwatch