Edited by Jonathan Santlofer. Touchstone, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8475-9
Despite the usual serial-novel pitfalls, C.J. Box, Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Charlaine Harris, Val McDermid, and the 15 other distinguished crime authors who each contribute a chapter to this team project succeed in fashioning an engaging...
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Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1
Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs a top-rank female thriller writer with a male counterpart. Sandra Brown’s Lee Coburn and C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett send...
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C.J. Box. Putnam, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-16076-9
Near the start of bestseller Box’s exhilarating 14th Joe Pickett novel (after 2013’s Breaking Point), the Wyoming game warden receives a summons to the governor’s office. Governor Rulon needs Joe to travel to Medicine Wheel County to investigate...
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C.J. Box. Putnam, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-15858-2
Bestseller Box, author of Stone Cold and 13 other Joe Pickett novels, proves in his first story collection that he’s also adept at the short form. The 10 selections, which include four Joe Pickett tales, are filled with Box trademarks: drama,...
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C.J. Box. Putnam, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-16077-6
In bestseller Box’s solid 15th novel featuring Joe Picket (after 2014’s Stone Cold), the Wyoming game warden faces a crime far too close to home. The sheriff tells him that his foster daughter, April, has been beaten and left for dead in a ditch;...
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C.J. Box. Minotaur, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-58321-7
Edgar-winner Box’s superior thriller carries some characters and themes over from his two previous standalones, The Highway and Back of Beyond, as investigator Cassie Dewell relocates to North Dakota’s boomtown oil fields. In the subzero prairie,...
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C.J. Box. Putnam, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-17660-9
Bestseller Box’s 16th Joe Pickett adventure (after 2015’s Endangered) opens with some of the sweetest words any true fan of the series could hope to see: “Nate Romanowski knew trouble was on the way when he saw the falcon’s wings suddenly flare in...
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C.J. Box. Putnam, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-17661-6
At the start of Edgar-winner Box’s crackling 17th Joe Pickett novel (after 2016’s Off the Grid), the Wyoming game warden is aboard a small plane in search of hunter Dave Farkus, “currently an unemployed layabout collecting dubious disability checks,”
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C.J. Box. Minotaur, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-05104-2
Bestseller Box’s excellent conclusion to a quartet of loosely related novels that started with 2011’s Back of Beyond finds Cassie Dewell now the chief investigator for the Bakken County (N.Dak.) Sheriff’s Department. Cassie convinces her boss,...
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C.J. Box. Putnam, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-17662-3
In bestseller Box’s superlative 18th novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett (after 2017’s Vicious Circle), the state’s new governor, Colter Allen, orders Joe, who did many special investigations for the previous governor, to find out what...
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-14748-7
Enthusiastic blurbs—even from luminaries such as Tony Hillerman, Les Standiford and Loren Estleman—can sometimes leave readers feeling as if they must have read a different book altogether. Not this time. Box's superb debut, the...
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C.J. Box. Putnam, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15826-1
Edgar-winner Box’s breakneck 12th Joe Pickett novel (after 2011’s Cold Wind) focuses on Joe’s outlaw buddy, Nate Romanowski. Nate’s been hiding in the foothills of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains from cruel and powerful enemies, harmlessly communing...
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-14887-3
Box's second novel offers more graceful writing than his overhyped debut, Open Season
(2001), along with a little humor and a more fluid plot line. Wyoming Game Warden Joe Picket is still fallible, his strong sense of duty, honor and justice...
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15045-6
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett runs into trouble again in Box's third fast-paced novel (after Open Season
and Savage Run), which focuses on the conflict between parental custody and foster care, as well as the growth of "independent nation&
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $24.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-399-15200-9
Box's riveting fourth Joe Pickett adventure (after 2003's Winterkill
) opens on a disturbing note, with the Wyoming game warden's chance discovery of the oddly mutilated body of a moose near his favorite fishing hole. When several...
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15291-7
In Box's taut, suspenseful fifth Joe Picket novel (after 2004's Trophy Hunt
), the Wyoming game warden is temporarily transferred from his backwater base, Saddlestring, to Jackson, a sophisticated tourist mecca, to replace warden Will Jensen,
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $24.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-399-15360-0
Wyoming Game and Fish warden Joe Pickett—honest, upright and hardworking—tends to attract the meanest villains this side of a spaghetti western, as shown in his sprightly sixth outing in which he and his family become the target of John...
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15427-0
When four environmental activists employed by Yellowstone Park are murdered in an isolated area, the Wyoming governor sends outspoken Joe Pickett, fired in his last outing, In Plain Sight
(2006), from the state's game and fish department, to...
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C. J. Box, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-312-36570-7
At the start of this overly complicated thriller from bestseller Box, his first stand-alone, siblings Annie and William Taylor, ages 12 and 10, witness a gruesome murder in the woods outside the small Idaho town of Kootenai Bay, nicknamed “Blue
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-399-15488-1
When an elk hunter is shot and gruesomely gutted in Box’s solid eighth Joe Pickett novel (after 2007’s Free Fire
), Wyoming governor Spencer Rulon assigns Joe to the investigative team headed by Joe’s nemesis, game and fish...
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C. J. Box, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-312-36572-1
Bestseller Box (Blue Heaven
) explores an adoptive parent’s worst nightmare in this compelling stand-alone thriller. Jack McGuane, an employee of Denver’s convention and visitors bureau, and his wife suddenly discover that demonic...
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $24.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-399-15575-8
Edgar-finalist Box's ninth novel to feature Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett begins with a bombshell: could Pickett's foster daughter, April, who apparently died six years earlier in a horrific conflagration when overzealous FBI agents confronted a...
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C. J. Box, Author . Putnam $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15645-8
Inspired by a real-life Wyoming game warden's encounter with sinister mountain-man twin brothers, Edgar-winner Box's outstanding 10th Joe Pickett novel (after Below Zero
) takes Pickett into darker territory than ever before. Pickett's
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C.J. Box, Putnam, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15735-6
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must try to prove that his despised mother-in-law, Missy Alden, isn't guilty of murdering Earl Alden, her fifth husband, in Box's searing 11th Joe Pickett novel (after Nowhere to Run). Pickett's gruesome discovery of...
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C.J. Box. Putnam, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-16075-2
Bureaucracy run amok drives Wyoming construction company owner Butch Roberson to the breaking point in Box’s excellent 13th Joe Pickett novel (after 2012’s Force of Nature). When game warden Pickett investigates a cut fence between private land and...
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C. J. Box, Author, Ray Gautreau, Read by , read by Ray Gautreau. Brilliance $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59086-946-8
Box's stalwart prison warden, Joe Pickett, is put to the test in his third grueling adventure in the Wyoming mountain wilderness. First, one of his prisoners escapes and winds up murdered by person or persons unknown. Then a group of militant...
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C.J. Box, read by Holter Graham. MacMillan Audio, , unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1134-7
When dedicated Montana police detective Cody Hoyt looks into the suspicious death of his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor, his investigation leads to a trek through the most remote reaches of Yellowstone National Park, and a quest to save his own son...
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C. J. Box, Author, John Bedford Lloyd, Read by , read by John Bedford Lloyd. Macmillan Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0617-6
In this stand-alone thriller set in Denver, Jack and Melissa McGuane stand to lose their adoptive baby daughter to her birth father, a teenage psychopath who never relinquished his paternal rights, and his father, a ruthless, well-connected federal...
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C. J. Box, Author, John Bedford Lloyd, Read by , read by John Bedford Lloyd. Macmillan Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0268-0
John Bedford Lloyd's rich, distinctive voice brings a strong sense of power to his reading of Box's first stand-alone thriller. In the rural Idaho town of Kootenai Bay, 12-year-old Annie Taylor and her younger brother, William, witness a...
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C. J. Box, Author, David Chandler, Narrated by Recorded Books $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4361-0509-5
Box's disappointing eighth installment of the celebrated Joe Pickett series is a suspenseful journey which casts our hero in a brutal murder investigation that may lead to his own demise. David Chandler reads with great dedication and clarity to the
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