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Open Season

(Joe Pickett #1)

C.J. Box

3.93 · Rating details · 18,490 ratings · 1,587 reviews

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts, and the game warden--especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way--is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfit ...more

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Mar 04, 2014 Matthew rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: Any mystery series fans

Shelves: mystery, own, western

Are you looking for a new mystery series? Do you like a beautiful western setting with modern day cowboys and outlaws? Do you like your justice served with rawhide, gun oil, and cheap saloon pilsner?

Look no further - welcome to the world of Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett whose heart is way bigger than his luck. While going about his daily tasks of checking hunting licenses and counting antelope, he is always getting himself caught up in mysteries and conspiracies that end up with him almost los ...more

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Aug 15, 2018 Lyn rated it really liked it

NEW BEST FRIEND!!!

Hello CJ Box and his game warden protagonist Joe Pickett! I’ll be coming to visit your little part of Wyoming again and again.

Box introduced game warden Pickett in this debut novel in 2001. Since then Box has been a steady and prolific writer, giving us fans a novel a year so this is a new series I can get to know and spend some time with.

Mystery and thriller fans are accustomed to protagonists being either a police officer and some sort or a private investigator and that’s alw NEW BEST FRIEND!!!

Hello CJ Box and his game warden protagonist Joe Pickett! I’ll be coming to visit your little part of Wyoming again and again.

Box introduced game warden Pickett in this debut novel in 2001. Since then Box has been a steady and prolific writer, giving us fans a novel a year so this is a new series I can get to know and spend some time with.

Mystery and thriller fans are accustomed to protagonists being either a police officer and some sort or a private investigator and that’s always fun, something grounded to help connect some dots and provide a certain and more or less predictable backstory. Usually adding some character flaws to the hero: alcoholism, broken relationships, etc. will add flavor to the story. Lee Child’s mixed this up some with Jack Reacher but the basic premise was still sound.

Pickett is a game warden. Yeah! Guy out in the field checking for hunting and fishing licenses and who you call when the moose wanders into your campsite. But it can get dicey when the guy you are citing for a violation is heavily armed and / or drunk and there is no one else around for miles. I had a neighbor years ago who was a Tennessee Wildlife Resource agent (game warden) and he told a story about one of his colleagues who was ticketing an outfitter way out in the Smokey Mountains of eastern Tennessee and the man’s client was Steven Seagal. Seagal was actually very nice and all was handled appropriately … but there was still that tension.

So, back to Joe Pickett. We find our hero as a very green newbie, more or less new to his position and making rookie mistakes a plenty. He also has a young family with one on the way and all living in a small, state funded house in his jurisdiction. Money is tight and Joe is working hard to provide for his family while also establishing himself and to begin his career.

From here Box tells a very entertaining re-imagining of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 An Enemy of the People, where the idealistic goals of society are matched against the more immediate needs of putting food on the table. There's also nefarious greed and the ambivalence towards natural resources involved. More than just an exciting whodunit, Box explores themes of conservationism and the complexities of government service and the balancing needs of ecological and economic stability.

Good fun in Wyoming and I’ll be back.

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Mar 08, 2012 Kemper rated it liked it

Shelves: 2012, crime-mystery, rednecks

“Looking for a new exciting career? Love the outdoors and working with animals? The state of Wyoming is accepting applications for positions as game wardens. If you’ve spent years obtaining a college degree in fields related to conservation or ecology, you could qualify to be one of our low-paid government agents with a huge territory to cover along with more work than you can possibly do. As a bonus, you’ll get to issue tickets to heavily armed drunken rednecks with no back-up in the middle of “Looking for a new exciting career? Love the outdoors and working with animals? The state of Wyoming is accepting applications for positions as game wardens. If you’ve spent years obtaining a college degree in fields related to conservation or ecology, you could qualify to be one of our low-paid government agents with a huge territory to cover along with more work than you can possibly do. As a bonus, you’ll get to issue tickets to heavily armed drunken rednecks with no back-up in the middle of nowhere when you catch them committing hunting violations. Act now!”

Joe Pickett loves his job as a game warden, but it’s a tough gig trying to support his family on a small salary and constantly suffering by comparison to the legendary warden he replaced when the older man retired. After a terrifying incident when trying to ticket a poacher, Joe is humiliated and suffers from a loss of respect in the community. When that same poacher shows up dead on the woodpile in Joe’s backyard, the game warden has to help track down a killer and find out what’s been going on in the wide empty spaces of Wyoming.

I liked the setting and the idea of a game warden as the main character of a mystery. I also liked how Joe’s work was shown as important but thankless, and how he was starting to worry that his love of the job was going to hurt his family. There’s a pretty good story behind the killing of the poacher, and some interesting supporting characters. I also liked that Joe was portrayed as a basically decent guy, but not the smartest tool in the shed and prone to screwing up.

However, I pretty much had the entire plot figured out about a quarter of the way into this. It’s obvious who the villains are and what their goal is early on. Joe spends a lot of time figuring out what’s going to be obvious to most readers, and it’s frustrating watching your hero get manipulated when you’ve already figured it all out.

Liked it, didn’t love it. I’d give the series another try if the story sounded interesting or it had great reviews, but I won't be rushing to pick another one up.
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Feb 16, 2015 Dirk Grobbelaar rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller

It’s actually been two weeks or so since I’ve finished this – so this review may be a bit sparse on details.

Not that a lot of exposition is required to review Open Season. Simply put: I enjoyed it.

While the structure of the story isn’t particularly novel as far as mystery stories or police procedurals are concerned, the environmental aspect certainly is. See, Joe Pickett isn’t a cop or a P.I., he’s a game ranger. However, he apparently isn’t exempt from dealing with murderers and/or crooks on t ...more

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Jan 25, 2017 Dan Schwent rated it liked it

Shelves: 2017, 2017-books

When a man dies in his front yard carrying a cooler, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds himself thrust into a mystery, a mystery that might cost him everything he holds dear...

Over the past ten years, I've read hundreds of mysteries and thrillers. There's a stripped down charm to some of them and many of them boil down to the oldest of tales: people being shitheads to each other. When this one popped up on the cheap, I decided to give it a shot. "Wyoming game warden" isn't something that come When a man dies in his front yard carrying a cooler, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds himself thrust into a mystery, a mystery that might cost him everything he holds dear...

Over the past ten years, I've read hundreds of mysteries and thrillers. There's a stripped down charm to some of them and many of them boil down to the oldest of tales: people being shitheads to each other. When this one popped up on the cheap, I decided to give it a shot. "Wyoming game warden" isn't something that comes to mind when I think of a sleuth.

Open Season starts out by establishing that Joe Pickett is a good man but not precisely on the ball. A guy gets his gun from him and he never lives it down. Joe's a family man, with two daughters and a bun in the oven. His wife is clearly the brains of the operation. When the very man that snatched his gun away from him winds up dead on their wood pile, Joe finds himself neck deep in something sinister.

The rural Wyoming setting was the star of the show for me. Being a hundred miles from nowhere is scary on its own, not to mention throwing in the wildlife and the fact that everyone is packing heat. Box did a great job capturing what life in a dying small town is like. I liked that Joe was a by the book game warden rather than some kind of smart mouth maverick like so many other sleuths.

The setup for the mystery was good but I felt like everything after that was telegraphed. When there are only three prominent characters besides the sleuth and his family, it's pretty obvious that one or more of them is involved in the shady business. I felt like I spent a lot of time waiting for Joe Pickett to catch up.

As much as I've complained, I did enjoy the book and the ending was cathartic enough to be worth it. Box resisted the temptation to make Pickett rush in with guns blazing like an action hero and kept things true to character.

While it wasn't the best mystery I read this year, Open Season was an engaging enough read and I'm open to reading the further adventures of Joe Pickett. Three out of five stars.

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May 19, 2018 Suzanne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the first C.J. Box book I have read and I am not disappointed at all! I found it so interesting and actually read it in one sitting. I have been wanting to read the Joe Picket series for awhile now and am so glad I finally did. This game warden is one intriguing character. I will continue the series after finishing the Alex Cross series.

My quick and simple overall: an awesome start to a series. 👍👍

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Feb 14, 2017 Li'l Owl rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: debut-novel, mystery-crime-suspense-thriller, series, wyoming-author-setting, wildlife-zoology, owl-s-books-own-read, to-read-again, game-warden-park-ranger, owl-s-favorite-books-authors

This debut novel by cj box is absolutely sensational!! The beginning pulled me in immediately, making it nearly irresistible to stop once I started.

The set of characters are so different than ones that make up detective procedural novels or even private investigator crime solving thrillers. It's unusual in so many ways but it's still completely absorbing. The individual personalities are well defined and are full of depth. I immediately fell for Joe and his family. Joe is such an endearing and This debut novel by cj box is absolutely sensational!! The beginning pulled me in immediately, making it nearly irresistible to stop once I started.

The set of characters are so different than ones that make up detective procedural novels or even private investigator crime solving thrillers. It's unusual in so many ways but it's still completely absorbing. The individual personalities are well defined and are full of depth. I immediately fell for Joe and his family. Joe is such an endearing and original character who makes mistakes and is complete with a few flaws. He's generally upbeat and is quite comical at times. His family is heart warming and genuine. I fell in love with his loving wife, who pregnant and expecting their third child, and his little girls, ages seven and three. Sheridan is a bright and imaginative, Lucy is inquisitive and impressionable, both are adorable and precious.
It took no imagination to put myself smack dab in the middle of Joe's little cabin. I could smell the sage brush, see the brilliant colors of golden aspen trees, imagine the crunch of the leaves under my feet, and feel the bitter cold high in the mountains. There's a strong sense of being in the wide open spaces of the prairies, the wildlife prolific and breathtaking. Cj box is a master of descriptive words that paint the images just as bold as on any canvas.

Then, there is the story. The description of what the book is about is dead on.
It's packed full of energy and suspense. The pace is nearly frantic and I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. There are lot's of twists that made it impossible to even grasp a hint of the who and the why, coming to a heart stopping ending. It left me longing to read the next in the series. And I will be doing just that in the near future.
I don't usually write a novel when reviewing one but I just want to give you a taste of how much I loved this book! I highly recommend it!

Here's a bit of *Chapter One*

Seven-year-old Sheridan Pickett related her dream aloud to the stuffed bear that served as her confidant. Lucy, three and horrified, listened in. "The monster, Sheridan said, had come down from the mountains through the dark, steep canyon behind the house very late last night.... the monster had rattled the back gate before figuring out the latch and had then lurched clumsily (sort of like mummies in the old movies) across the yard to the back door. Its eyes and teeth glinted yellow, and for a second, Sheridan felt an electric bolt jolt through her as the monsters head swiviled around and seemed to look directly at her before it fled. The monster was hairy and shiny as if covered with liquid. Twigs and leaves were stuck to it. There was something white, a large sack or box, swinging from the monsters hand.
"Sheridan, stop talking about monsters", Joe called out. The dream disturbed him because the details were so precise.
"You're going to scare your little sister".
" I'm already scared", Lucy declared pulling her blanket to her mouth.
"Then the man walked slowly away across the yard through the gate toward the woodpile where he fell down into a big shadow. And he's still out there, Sheridan finished, widening her eyes toward her sister to deliver the complete effect.
"Hold it, Sheridan, Joe said abruptly, entering the room with a spatula in his hand. " You said 'man'. You didn't say 'monster'. You said 'man. '"
Sheridan looked up quizzically, her big eyes wide. "Maybe it was a man. Maybe it wasn't a dream after all." ...more

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Jun 27, 2016 Carol added it

Shelves: debut, series

Published in 2001, Open Seasonis the solid debut of the long running C. J. Box’s Joe Pickett Series

The Hook Over and over again I have heard praise for C.J. Box and his Joe Pickett series. I couldn’t ignore all the rave reviews for #16 Off the Grid. I decided it was now or forever hold the page. Besides, Box thinks Michael Connelly is great and as you all know I’m a Connelly fan.

The Line ”Joe rarely found a reason to draw his weapon, and even if he did, he doubted he could hit anything with it.” ...more

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Dec 22, 2015 Cathrine ☯️ rated it liked it · review of another edition

3.5★

The wilds of Wyoming, controversy between ranchers and conservationists, plus our main guy, game warden Joe Pickett made for an entertaining mystery/thriller and introduced me to book 1 in a series that I will continue reading. Rumor has it that Robert Redford would like to produce a TV series based on the books. Since I can’t get enough of Longmire, bring it on. I loved the unlikely heroine of Sheridan, one of Joe’s two daughters. I would classify this as man-lit which women can appreciate. ...more

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Feb 21, 2018 Stacey rated it really liked it

I've been meaning to read Open Season for a long time! Joe Pickett, our main character, is the new game warden In Wyoming. Joe is the kind of guy I like to read about. He's down to earth, down on his luck and rather bumbling on the job. "When Joe screwed up, he did it massively and publicly." He's a family man and wears his heart on his sleeve.

Bodies start piling up on the wood pile in Joe's backyard. He starts looking closely at the murders and possibly an endangered species living in that wood ...more

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Sep 12, 2015 Michelle rated it liked it

Shelves: 2015, mystery-thriller, library, reviewed

Dear Sheriff Longmire, please don't be mad at me for cheating on you with another Wyoming lawman. He meant nothing to me, I swear!

I was set up on a blind date with Joe Pickett, Saddleback Game Warden and family man. We had a good time. I mean, Joe is lawful good, to an extreme. He's a good husband, father, and morally in the right. Plus Wyoming is always a good time for an outdoors-lovin' girl like me. The mystery was solid and I will continue the series, but I think Joe and I will remain "just ...more

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Oct 23, 2017 Jim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-2017, mystery-suspense-thriller

This is a mystery / thriller but it also (IMHO) a story with a message about the Endangered Species Act. Joe Pickett is the game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming and relatively new on the job. He is a family man and dedicated to his job. He has two daughters, Sheridan and Lucy, and his wife Marybeth is expecting their third child. He is honest and doesn't take bribes or look the other way and because of that he is not always popular. He isn't a sharpshooter and he makes mistakes. Sometimes embarr ...more

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Jan 15, 2019 Cydni rated it really liked it

I really enjoyed this book. I’m ready to read the next one.

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May 19, 2016 Lisa Kay rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommended to Lisa Kay by: Becky ♡The Bookworm♡

Shelves: challenge-2016-rlftci, new-2-me-author, authors-c, authors-b, genre-mystery, genre-thriller, setting-usa-wyoming, character-child-children-featured, m-audible-dot-com, animal-dog-in-story

★★★★ (This is a review of the audiobook.) I haven't heard the narrator, David Chandler, read before. At first, neither he nor the book grabbed me. I mean, I was interested, but not captivated. That changed as the book progressed! Looking forward to listening to him narrate the rest of this series, as he certainly became Joe Pickett to me.

Excellent start to the series. Nice slow build, that comes to a believable and satisfying conclusion. Sure, at times, I knew where the story was going, but ther ...more

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Sep 30, 2017 Irene rated it liked it

This was typical of the genre. The body of a murdered man on the wood pile behind the home of a young game warden leads him to an investigation in which he will bring down corrupt politicians and big oil money. Despite being out numbered and facing threats to his livelihood and the safety of his family, he never falters. There is the usual amount of implausible scenarios, including the incredible shoot out. There is enough attention to developing the characters that the story was more interestin ...more

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Mar 27, 2017 Veronica rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-mystery

Well, this didn't end up being what I was hoping for.

Joe Pickett is a Game Warden in Twelve Sleep River County (Wyoming) where he lives in State housing with his pregnant wife and their two daughters, ages 7 and 3. This was a quick and simple read...and by simple I mean obvious in pretty much every aspect. Joe is such an OBVIOUS boy scout...whose only flaw seems to be a couple of personal habits that cause his wife to fear that other people will think him mentally slow. I don't think he's necess ...more

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Sep 11, 2018 Jason Parent rated it really liked it

I was only going to give this three stars, but shit got real toward the end.

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Mar 28, 2018 MadProfessah rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2018-read

A solid 4 stars.

This is the first entry in the long-running Joe Pickett series by C.J. Box. It’s a police procedural mystery thriller set in Saddlestring, Wyoming where Pickett is a U.S. Game and Fish warden for Twelve Sleep County.

This is definitely an unusual setting since the area is so sparsely populated that the number of characters in the story is pretty small. Joe is the main character and he lives in Saddlestring with his pregnant wife Marybeth and his two daughters Sheridan and Lucy. Ve A solid 4 stars.

This is the first entry in the long-running Joe Pickett series by C.J. Box. It’s a police procedural mystery thriller set in Saddlestring, Wyoming where Pickett is a U.S. Game and Fish warden for Twelve Sleep County.

This is definitely an unusual setting since the area is so sparsely populated that the number of characters in the story is pretty small. Joe is the main character and he lives in Saddlestring with his pregnant wife Marybeth and his two daughters Sheridan and Lucy. Vern Dunnegan is his mentor (and previously held the warden job Joe now has). His best friend seems to be Wacey Hedeman, the warden in the next county. The other prominent character in the book is Sheriff Bud Barnum.

Since hunting and fishing is such a huge activity in Twelve Sleep County Joe is a very important person in the county, rivaling the Sheriff. There are very many non-local people who pass through his country taking advantage of the natural bounty to hunt, kill and trap the animals there. But sometimes some of these people get killed as well and that’s the start of our mystery. The body of a local guy (named Ote Keeley)is found with a seeping gunshot wound to the stomach in Joe’s garage.

The source of the suspense is that Joe’s family (especially his 7-year old daughter Sheridan) becomes involved in the investigation of what happened to Ote and eventually more dead bodies are found which leads Joe to discover a pretty big conspiracy.

Joe is an interesting character who (like most characters that these series are built around) is flawed in many ways but in this case also has a very strong law-abiding core. He goes pretty wild when his family is threatened (for good reason). I believe I will read more books in the series because I’m curious to see what will happen to Joe (and his family, especially Sheridan) in the following books and to find out how Box has been able to come up with over a dozen compelling stories set in the sparsely populated Wyoming countryside featuring Joe Pickett. ...more

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Mar 31, 2016 Christine Zibas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016-books, giveaways-i-ve-won

When Open Season took nearly every "first novel" mystery prize, it wasn't a surprise. This reissue of the Joe Pickett classic has all the tell-tale signs of greatness that would keep its author, CJ Box, crafting many more novels to come. A Wyoming native, Box infuses his books with a love of the land and the modern issues that concern the people who live there.

In this first novel, readers are introduced to straight-shooter Game Warden Joe Pickett and his family. Trying to eke out a living, Joe d ...more

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Apr 10, 2018 Lynn rated it liked it

A quick but predictable mystery set in Wyoming. I may read more, but for now I like Craig Johnson's WY setting and Paul Doiron's ME game warden more.

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Apr 04, 2010 Sheila rated it it was amazing

This was my first book by C.J. Box and luckily it was also the first in the Joe Pickett series. I really liked this book. The protagonist is an average Joe (no pun intended) who isn't particularly clever or handsome or strong. He is just a hard working guy trying to do his best for both his family and his job. I like books that have characters that are a bit flawed to make them more believeable.

I will definitely read more in this series. That seems to be my problem. I can now take 1 book off my ...more

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Jun 22, 2015 Eric rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: Anyone looking for a different kind of mystery set in the wilds of Wyoming

Shelves: detective-mystery

Joe Pickett, Wyoming game warden and stand up family man, gets involved in something way above his pay grade when a three local hunters turn up dead, one in Pickett's own yard. Pickett is not cop, detective, or sheriff, and while educated about the things he would be -- mostly game and guns -- multiple murders are considerably outside his area of expertise. I don't want to say any more and spoil anything, but the mystery kept me guessing a while (view spoiler) ...more

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Oct 10, 2017 ✨Susan✨ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audible, corruption, game-warden, money, murder

A fantastic start to the Joe Pickett series. I started this series in the middle and was not sure the beginning would be as good as the latest, but it was. Joe really puts himself on the line in this addition, he is new and messing with folks that don't want him nosing around in their business. A big developer will stop at nothing to cover up an endangered species and that includes going after Joe and his family. Suspenseful and fast moving. Great as a stand alone as well.

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Jul 20, 2018 Asheley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

SO SO SO GOOD.

Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden, just an all-around good guy. He doesn't seem to have any major baggage or drama that he carries to work with him. He doesn't seem to habitually bend the rules or laws in his pursuit of justice, or at least not yet. These are some of the features that I love about many of the detective and crime series that I love to read. (I'm looking at you, Harry Bosch.) But in this first Pickett book, I found that Joe Pickett really loves his job, he loves t ...more

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Aug 07, 2018 Jaksen rated it liked it

A good enough mystery, though sort of formulaic. People have secrets, will warn and threaten others to 'keep quiet' about those secrets. However, we all know most normal, red-blooded Americans can NEVER KEEP A SECRET.

(This is why I think most conspiracy theories are utter crap. You want to keep a really big secret? Tell no one, or if you tell one friend, you must kill him or her. JK Really, but I got a problemo with secrets.)

Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden, who's having a hard time making end ...more

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Apr 02, 2017 JoAnn rated it really liked it

Shelves: western-modern

3.5 stars

So I had a 2 main reasons for reading this book and series.

The first being I had hopes that it would similar to the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson, which btw is my favorite series.

And the second is that CJ Box and Sandra Brown, another favorite must read author of mine, are doing a MatchUp where CJ Box's Joe Pickett (from this series) and Lee Coburn (from Sandra Brown's Lethal) work together. Since I am familiar with Lee Coburn I thought it would do me good to get to know Joe ...more

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May 30, 2017 Matt Garcia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The mystery was solid. It's pretty obvious what's going on and who's behind it but it was still intriguing and satisfying to see all of the pieces of the puzzle fall into place.
The plot is unique and I appreciate that. The topic of endangered species and a mystery surrounding that is not something that I've seen before and Box is able to navigate it well.
The main character, Joe Pickett, was the atypical protagonist. A good natured, hard working, family man who is a game warden in Wyoming. I li ...more

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Sep 26, 2018 Judy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Fabulous! I am thrilled to find this “new to me” author. Box’s debut novel is suspenseful and informative. It is the second book about a game warden that I’ve read recently. The locale for Game Warden, Joe Pickett, is Wyoming. Box develops interesting characters and I am looking forward to reading more books in the series.

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May 14, 2018 Randy Tramp rated it it was amazing

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Wyoming. He's not popular because he upholds the law.

A body is found at his back door. Joe investigates.

What made this story more interesting is the involvement of Joe's family, specifically his little girl. No one messes with Joe's family and gets away with it.

I've read several stories in this series and going back to the first book seemed natural. What an opening book to this series. Pickett is one person I think about after the book is closed. I'm already ...more

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Jun 05, 2017 Alyx Tschirhart rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Well this was one of those books where after reading a few chapters, you just aren't sure if you're going to like it too much. In fact I was mildly regretting already purchasing three other books in the Joe Pickett series.
But shortly after my worry, the book really turned it on. I'm eager to see what the next is like.
At the beginning, I wasn't too fond of Joe Pickett. He seemed too weak to be a character in such a large series. However, I had wrongly mistaken restraint and strength for fragilit ...more

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Edgar Award-winning author C.J. Box is the author of nineteen novels including the Joe Pickett series. He's also won the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, and the Barry Award. His short stories have been featured in America's Best Mystery Stories of 2006 and limited-edition printings. 2008 novel BLOOD TRAIL was nominated for the International IMPAC Dub ...more

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