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Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box is on the New York Times Bestseller List for the second straight week with this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.
“Tell Sherry April called.” That simple phone message shakes Joe Pickett’s oldest daughter Sheridan and the rest of the family to the core. To Joe, it doesn’t seem even remotely possible that April could have survived the massacre described in Winterkill six years before. He was there, and he was unable to save her. But Sheridan starts to believe there’s a chance that April is still alive, and her suspicions are confirmed when the person sending texts to her cell phone is able to recall family incidents only April could know.
Meanwhile, a dying Chicago mobster named Stenko and a much younger girl cross the country. He’s on a mission is to reconcile with his extreme environmentalist son before he goes. His son is less interested in reconciliation than in getting his father to repent for the environmental crimes he’s committed during his lifetime. He wants his father to become not just carbon neutral, but to reduce his carbon footprint to below zero—as if he’d never even existed.
Joe, however, remains wary of the messages, even though their references to things only April could know are convincing. But when the texts start to refer to “bad things,” and when Marybeth discovers they come from locations throughout the West where vicious murders have taken place, alarm bells go off. Desperate to discover if April is still alive and to save her from possible danger, Joe, Sheridan, and Nate Romanowski take to the road to connect the texts with the crimes.
As the path of Stenko and his companions starts to cross with Joe, Sheridan, and Nate, the question is raised: Is this young girl April or is The Pickett Family the victims of the cruelest of hoaxes?
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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 con
Box's series is the gold standard in the western mystery subgenre (Blood Trail), and his latest is just as addictive as the others.
Wyoming game Warden Joe Pickett isn't the most heroic crime novel hero around, but he might be the most decent.
Salesmen have a trick. It's a well-known trick, but even though you know it's coming, it really works: They use your name over and over again in their spiel.
Wyoming author C.J. Box had me hooked with the opening lines of "Open Season," the first of his mysteries featuring game warden Joe Pickett.
Recurring characters and themes may maintain the continuity of a mystery series, but reopening a case solved in a previous book is a high-risk venture.
The hardworking and best-selling Box has been on a two-book-per-year pace of late, alternating his popular Joe Pickett novels with stand-alone thrillers.
Crime thrillers, familial love and environmental activism usually don't find themselves together in the same book.
Blue Heaven, Box's last book, was a terrific stand-alone thriller about rogue L.A. cops retired to Idaho.
In 2003's "Winterkill," Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's foster daughter, April, was killed. Or was she?
We've all come across them, in the headlines or in person: activists whose passion for a cause borders on obsession.
Wyoming-based mystery author CJ Box has won nearly all of the major crime fiction awards. Now he can add Edgar to his mantle.
Everyone is used to getting unsolicited (and, usually, unwelcome) telephone calls. Few, however, have ever been electronically accosted by a voice from the grave.
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Debuting at #26 on the New York Times Best Seller List in it's first week...A Booksense Notable Pick for June
WINNER OF THE 2008 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL...
Four weeks on the extended New York Times bestseller list...Optioned for film by producers Michael Besman ("About Schmidt") and Cameron Lamb...Selected by the American Library Association as a 2008 Reading List award winner in the category "Adrenaline"...
This break-out novel from the author of the New York Times Bestselling Joe Pickett novels is "a non-stop thrill-ride…a provocative suspense novel that has you rooting for the characters every step of the way." -- Harlan Coben
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder—four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children’s fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children.
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