"...a page-turning, suspense-ratcheting success..."

MYSTERIES
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Michele Ross

C.J. Box deserves the loyal fans he has created with his mysteries featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. Now Box is trying something new with Blue Heaven (St. Martin's, 344 pp., $24.95) a stand-alone thriller. "Blue heaven" is what certain Los Angeles cops call North Idaho because so many of them retire there. When two children out in the woods witness a killing, they know enough to be scared for their lives. What they don't know is that it will turn into a nightmare involving corrupt police and people with secrets to protect at any cost. Longtime rancher Jess Rawlins, trying to hold on to his property and his values, gets pulled into the very heart of the mess. The result is a page-turning, suspense-ratcheting success.

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