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C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series has taken the detective thriller out of the city and into the plains of Wyoming. His latest, In Plain Sight (320 pages, Putnam, $24.95), finds Pickett, a Wyoming fish and game warden, in a battle with a villain from the past.
The town's matriarch, Opal Scarlett, who owns a sprawling ranch and who pulls considerable clout, has vanished. Her two sons, Hank and Arlen, begin a bloody feud over who will inherit the ranch and its rich land. This feud divides the town, further complicating Pickett's attempts to find out what really happened to Opal.
If that weren't enough, a mysterious ranch hand, John Wayne Keeley, appears. Keeley is a killer whose ability to play both sides of the feud draws Pickett's suspicion. But what Pickett doesn't know is that Keeley has marked Pickett and his family as his next victims.
"In Plain Sight" is a modern-day Western mixed with the classical influence of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Box's treatment of family grudges makes for a refreshing read. BY FRANCIS W. DECKER
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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
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In advance reviews, Open Season has been pronounced "something special," (Booklist), and it lives up to the billing. It is not C.J.
