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Our Tip of the Ice Pick Award for May goes to C.J. Box for Winterkill (Putnam, $23.95, 400 pages, ISBN 0399150455), his third installment in the series featuring Game Warden Joe Pickett. In the snowbound Wyoming mountains, four days before Christmas, Pickett is on patrol. Shots ring out. The limit for hunters is one elk per season, and now one shooter with a high-powered rifle has killed or mortally wounded seven animals in the space of seconds. When Pickett apprehends the man, he is shocked to discover that the perpetrator is the District Supervisor of the National Forest. Dazed and apparently drunk or confused, the man bolts into the forest. When Pickett finally catches up with him, the man is dead—murdered and pinned to a tree with a cluster of high-impact arrows, like those from a crossbow. Lest there be any doubt about the pacing of a C.J. Box novel, let it be said that the above-mentioned scene takes place within the first chapter, and the velocity doesn't slow appreciably until the last page. Folks familiar with the massacres at Waco and Ruby Ridge will find eerie parallels in Winterkill, and it is extremely difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys without a cheat sheet. And through it all, Joe Pickett must tread the fine line between administering the law and dispensing justice in this disquieting tale of the new Old West.
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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.
