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C.J. Box. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95. Grade: A
Here's some perfect reading for the National Western Stock Show: Wyoming writer Box has quickly established himself as one of the top U.S. mystery authors, a terrific new voice who lives just up the road near Cheyenne. It doesn't hurt a bit that he's a good-lookin' cowboy, either (see for yourself when he makes an appearance at noon, Jan. 26, at Murder By The Book, 1574 S. Pearl St.).
In Blue Heaven, he departs from his six-book series featuring beloved game warden Joe Pickett to pen a stand-alone thriller about two children who witness a murder in North Idaho. In a world of betrayals, it's the old-fashioned ranching West, personified by struggling rancher Jess Rawlings, that saves them.
Each of Box's books highlights Western issues: In Blue Heaven, he delineates the tensions between eager newcomers and established residents, the New and Old Wests, in a desirable retirement area.
Final word: If you've somehow missed reading Box, don't miss Blue Heaven.
Jane Dickinson
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/18/specialty-bookshelf-ja...
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Four weeks on the extended New York Times bestseller list...Optioned for film by producers Michael Besman ("About Schmidt") and Cameron Lamb...
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.
J. W. Keeley is a man with a score to settle. He blames one man for the death of his brother: Joe Pickett. And now J.W. is going to make him suffer.
Game Warden Joe Pickett returns in a twisting, action-packed tale of greed, power, and murder. And meat.
This time, I wanted to write a mystery. Of course, the previous Joe Pickett novels are considered mysteries, or thrillers set in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming.
WINTERKILL is one of the TOP TEN MYSTERIES OF 2003 according to Oline Cogdill of the South Florida Sun Sentinal: "Few mystery authors who use the environment as a plot foundation are as even-handed an
Laconic Joe Pickett returns to his slightly offbeat duties in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains in C. J. Box's Savage Run.
In advance reviews, Open Season has been pronounced "something special," (Booklist), and it lives up to the billing. It is not C.J.
