From amazon.com:

New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box's Below Zero is the 9th novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. The telephone calls from her stepdaughter April send chills down the spine of Joe's daughter Sherry. Wasn't April murdered six years ago in a bloody massacre? Wondering how this youthful caller knows details only April could know, Sherry becomes confused while Joe grows suspicious. Is the caller April-or are Joe and his family victims of a cruel hoax?

"One of today's solid-gold A-list must-read writers."
- LEE CHILD

"An original voice...  Box is exploring new territory.  He is fresh, captivating, and has something to say."
- MICHAEL CONNELLY

It's elk season in the Rockies - but a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey.  Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp - strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing.  A poker chip lies next to his body.  As ripples of horror spread through the community, Governor Rulon is forced to end hunting season early.  Are the murders the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta?  Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer down before someone declares open season on humans.

"Box ratchets up the suspense in this tightly plotted example of his writing genius."
- LIBRARY JOURNAL

"[Box] continues to be red-hot."
- BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)

"An exceptionally well-told story that will entertain, thrill, and maybe even outrage its readers."
- USA TO DAY

Joe Pickett always liked Butch Roberson - a hard-working local business owner whose daughter is friends with his own.  Little does he know that when Butch says he is heading into the mountains to scout elk, he is actually going on the run.

Two EPA employees have been murdered, and all signs point to Butch as the killer.  Soon, Joe hears of the land Butch and his wife had bought to retire on - until they are told the EPA declared it a wetland - and the penalties the agency charged Butch until the family was torn apart.  Finally, it seems, the man just cracked.

It's an awful story.  But is it the whole story?  The more Joe investigates, the more he begins to wonder - and the more he finds himself in the middle of a war in which he must choose sides.

"Fans of this series will burn through the pages...  Another must-read."
- LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)

"I would say that C. J. Box is at the top of his form, but the top keeps moving ever upward." - BOOKPAGE

When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, his wife, Missy, is arrested.  Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his much-disliked mother-in-law, and he's not sure What to do - especially since it looks like Missy is guilty as sin.

But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl's death what it appears to be?  Is Missy being set up?  He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck.

Whichever way this goes, it's not going to be good...

"Stunning...  Will curl your hair." - KIRKUS REVIEWS

"I love Joe Pickett." - MICHAEL CONNELLY

"One of today's solid-gold, A-list, must-read writers."
- LEE CHILD

"Joe Pickett, the conscientious game warden in these rugged novels... shows the tough-and-tender qualities that make him such a great guy to have on your side."
-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has to contend with two cases, both of them lethal - and one of them surprisingly close to home.

Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate.  A prominent British businesswoman never came home from the high-end guest ranch she was visiting, and the British Embassy is pressing hard.

At the same time, his friend Nate Romanowski has asked Joe to intervene with the feds on behalf of an issue passionately felt by falconers, but inexplicably being blocked.  It seems like a matter of lesser importance to Joe right now, but the more he digs into both cases, the more someone is trying to stop him.  Is it because of the missing woman or the falconers?  Or are they somehow connected?

"Thriller writing at its very best, as big and broad as the Wyoming landscape." -THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

"Superlative...  Series fans and newcomers alike will be rewarded."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

"Once again, Box delivers a winner.  Grade: A."
- CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

"Try and read this in one sitting, because you won't want to put it down for a minute."
- SUSPENSE MAGAZINE

She was gone.  Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more - Joe's eighteen-year-old daughter, April, has run off with him.

And then comes even worse news: the body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway - alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt-force trauma.  It is April, and the doctors don't know if she'll recover.  Cates denies having anything to do with it - says she ran off from him, too - and there's evidence that points to another man.  But Joe knows in his gut who's responsible.  What he doesn't know is the kind of danger he's about to encounter.  Cates is bad enough, but Cates's family is like none Joe has ever met before.

Joe's going to find out the truth, even if it kills him.  And this time, it just might.

"Another amazing thriller from C. J. Box."
- ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past.  Now it's here, and it's coming for his friend Joe Pickett.  In 1999, Nate was in a secret special forces unit in Central Asia, when a colleague did something terrible.  Now the man has incentive to eliminate anyone who knows about it, and Nate can guess exactly how he'll do it when it comes to his case - by striking at Nate's friends to draw him out.

The entire Pickett family will be a target, and the only way to fight back will be outside the law.


"Proceeds at warp speed toward a showdown between good and evil." - THE DENVER POST

"Brilliant in every respect, the perfect combination of character, plot, and pacing.  Box is a force to be reckoned with, and this book is not to be missed."
- PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

"One of the year's best crime novels."
- BOOKLIST

"A splendid thriller:."
- THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

"An outstanding series."
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Joe Pickett's been hired to investigate one of the most cold-blood mass killings in Wyoming history.  Attorney Clay McCann admitted to slaughtering four campers in a backcountry corner of Yellowstone National Park, a "free-fire" zone with no residents or government regulation.  In this remote fifty-square-mile stretch a man can literally get away with murder.  Now McCann's a free man, and Pickett's about to discover his motive - one buried in Yellowstone's rugged terrain, and as dangerous as the man who wants to keep it hidden.

"One of today's solid-gold A-list must-read writers."
- LEE CHILD

"An original voice...  Box is exploring new territory.  He is fresh, captivating, and has something to say." - MICHAEL CONNELLY

THE HIGHWAY
by C.J. Box

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BACK OF BEYOND AND BREAKING POINT AND THE CREATOR OF THE JOE PICKETT SERIES IS BACK.

When two sisters set out across a remote stretch of Montana road to visit their friend, little do they know it will be the last time anyone might ever hear from them.  The girls - and their car - simply vanish.

Former police investigator Cody Hoyt has just lost his job and has fallen off the wagon after a long stretch of sobreity.  Convinced by his son and his former rookie partner, Cassie Dewell, to conduct a search, Cody makes his way to the lonely stretch of Montana highway where the girls went missing.  Cassie discovers that Gracie and Danielle Sullivan aren't the first girls who have disappeared in this area.  This majestic landscape is the hunting ground for a killer whose viciousness is outmatched only by his intelligence.  And he might not be working alone.  Can Cody Hoyt battle his own demons and stop this killer before another victim vanishes on THE HIGHWAY?

"Let C.J.Box take you on an audio tour of Yellowstone National Park... Narrator Holter Graham conveys the demons, rage and parental love inside Cody." - USA Today on Back of Beyond

From amazon.com:

C. J. Box has won a host of awards, including the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry. In Plain Sight sees game warden Joe Pickett's life take a turn for the worse after millionaire Opal Scarlett goes missing. As Pickett discovers more and more disturbing truths, it becomes clear that someone wants the dogged game warden to keep his nose out of the investigation.

"[A] FAST-PACED, TIGHTLY WRITTEN TALE... BOX KEEPS
READERS GUESSING ALMOST TO THE END."
- ASSOCIATED PRESS

The wife of a powerful judge is shot - in her own home, from what seems like an impossibly long distance.  Who had reason to commit the terrible act - and the ability to pull off the shot?  Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is about to find out.

When Joe is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind.  Just as he begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, Joe is brought home by an emergency on his own turf.  Someone has targeted a prominent judge, shooting at him from a baffling distance.  While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and Joe must find answers and the shooter.

The search becomes personal when Joe's best friend Nate Romanowski is also threatened.  Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe.

"CLEVER PLOTTING KEEPS THIS CONSPIRACY YARN
MOVING BRISKLY." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

"This stellar novel combines harrowing adrenaline rushes with complex morality, humor, and a landscape described so vibrantly it seems to have a life all its own."
- PEOPLE

"A thoroughly entertaining mystery."
- CHICAGO TRIBUNE

It's Joe Pickett's last week as temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his con-science won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered.  Not to mention the Olympic hopeful who'd been training in the region and then just... vanished.  What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real - and all too deadly.  Joe thought he was saddling up for his last patrol.  If only he'd known how true that might turn out to be...

"Box's series is the gold standard."
- LIBRARY JOURNAL

"One of today's solid-gold A-list must-read writers."
- LEE CHILD

"With this exceptional entry, Box solidifies his place the upper end of the crime fiction pantheon."
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

The Red Desert of Wyoming is a beautiful and punishing place for anybody, but never more dangerous than it is now for game warden Joe Pickett, his friend Nate Ro-manowski, and the one who should never have been there, Joe's daughter Sheridan.

Nate is off the grid when he is suddenly confronted by a small team of elite professional operators.  They want to make a deal.  They need help destroying a domestic terror cell in the Red Desert, and in return, will make Nate's criminal record disappear.  But they are not what they seem - they have a very different plan in mind, one that might just take them all down.

"C. J. Box continues his spectacular roll with the darkly mesmerizing Off the Grid.  Joe Pickett and Nate Romanowski have become the gold standard, playing off each other perfectly as different sides of the same coin."
- PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

"Box is a master!" - THE DENVER POST

"Superb...  Riveting tensions!"
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden - especially one like Joe, who won't take bribes or look the other way - is always far from popular.  When Joe finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally - and thrusts himself into a mystery that threatens the life and family he loves.

"Box's book has it all - suspenseful plot, magnificent scenery, and a flawed male hero who is tough but truly connected to his family....  Profoundly memorable."  - BOSTON HERALD

"Open Season rings true....  Full of the kind of grittiness a reader can expect from a place where blood and bone are not just the stuff of crime fiction, but of sport and survival, too."  - THE DENVER POST

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From amazon.com:

C. J. Box's best-selling Joe Pickett novels have earned him a spot on every serious suspense fan's shortlist of favorites. The tightly constructed Out of Range brings game warden Joe to a new, remote beat in Wyoming's vast countryside to investigate the suspicious death of the previous warden. ". if anything, Box is getting better. Recommended for practically everybody." -Booklist, starred review

"Hunker down and hang on tight for
an intense, twisting ride that
lasts to the final page."
- THE DENVER POST

When a massive blast rocks the forests of Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is called to the scene to help investigate the death of a colorful environmental activist.  The case is wrapped up quickly, explained as an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong, but Joe isn't convinced.  He soon discovers clues that suggest a deadly conspiracy - one that will test his courage, his survival skills, and his determination to "do the right thing" despite all costs.

"Box sets up an impressive dual perspective in the novel, shifting between Joe Pickett's life as a game warden in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and the wanderings of two hired killers....  A tense chase."  - THE WASHINGTON POST

"Riveting... Box weaves in a history that gives the action a rich context....  Harrowing."  - USA TODAY

"A story as crisp as a Wyoming sunrise and every bit as dramatic:." - HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett and his wife, Marybeth, make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers' crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series.

A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Joe is called out for a moose-poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally tortured and murdered.  At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package at the library where she works and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official.  Who left it there?  And why?

She learns that during World War II, several Wyoming soldiers were part of the first American company to reach Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat in the Alps - and one of them took the Führer's personal photo album.  Did another take this one and keep it all these years?  When a close neighbor is murdered, Joe and Marybeth face new questions: Who is after the book?  And how will they solve its mystery before someone hurts them... or their girls?

Meanwhile, Nate Romanowski is on the hunt for the man who stole his falcons and attacked his wife.  Using a network of fellow falconers, Nate tracks the man from one city to another.  Even as he grasps the true threat his quarry presents, Nate swoops in for the kill - and a stunning final showdown.

C. J. BOX is the author of twenty-two Joe Pickett novels, most recently Dark Sky, seven stand-alone novels, including The Bitterroots; and the story collection Shots Fired.  He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38 and a French Elle magazine literary award.  His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages.  He and his wife, Laurie, live on their ranch in Wyoming.  He's an executive producer of ABC TV's Big Sky, which is based on his Cody Hoyt/Cassie Dewell novels, as well as executive producer of the upcoming Joe Pickett television series for Paramount TV/Spectrum Originals.

"An excellent anthology...  One of America's best crime novelists."
-LANSING STATE JOURNAL

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Pickett series comes a thrilling collection of suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so Well - and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there....

In "One-Car Bridge," one of four Joe Pickett stories, Pickett goes up against a just-plain-mean landowner, with disastrous results.  In "Shots Fired," his investigation into a radio call nearly ends up being the last thing he ever does.  "Pirates of Yellowstone" features two Eastern European tough guys who find out what it means to be strangers in a strange land, and in "Le Sauvage Noble" the stranger is a Lakota in Paris who enjoys playing the noble savage for the French women - until he meets Sophie.  Then he discovers what savage really means....

C. J. Box has been hailed for the brilliant storytelling that defines his novels.  That same brilliance is here in the ten riveting stories - three of them never before published - that make up Shots Fired.

"Nonstop adventure and mystery are omnipresent with unexpected twists and turns that will leave readers begging for more." - LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)

"If you're looking for rising tension played out against spectacular natural scenery, nobody does it better."
- KIRKUS REVIEWS

Stone Cold
A Joe Pickett Novel

The electrifying new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times bestselling author.

Everything about the man is a mystery: the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances.  And especially the persistent rumors that the man's wealth comes from killing people.

Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out what the truth is, but he discovers a lot more than he'd bargained for.  There are two other men living up at that ranch.  One is a stone-cold killer who takes an instant dislike to Joe.  The other is new - but Joe knows him all too well.  The first man doesn't frighten Joe.  The second is another story entirely.

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret, remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.

While tracking a wounded elk in the midst of an epic Rocky Mountain spring snowstorm, Joe Pickett makes a startling and gruesome discovery: the frozen and mutilated body of a man who has obviously trespassed on a private ranch and was killed near the location of a mysterious high-tech structure.  Joe also finds the man's vehicle on an isolated mountainside - the victim's ID indicates that he is a prominent University of Wyoming professor.  When Joe attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents, extremists, and Governor Colter Allen.

Nate Romanowski is rebuilding his falconry company - and financing this through crypto mining with the assistance of Geronimo Jones.  Nate is then approached by a shadowy group of local militant activists that is gaining in power and influence, and demanding that Wyoming join other western states and secede from the union - by force, if necessary.  They ask Nate to throw in with them, but he's wary.  Should he trust them, or is he being set up?

As a storm of peril gathers around them, Joe and Nate confront it in different ways - and maybe, for the first time, on opposite sides.

C. J. BOX is the author of twenty-three Joe Pickett novels, eight stand-alone novels, and a story collection.  He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, the Western Heritage Award for Literature, and two Spur Awards.  An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West.  He is an executive producer of ABC TV's Big Sky and Joe Pickett on Spectrum Originals and Paramount+, both of which are based on his novels.

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of
raging beasts - one animal, one human - in this riveting new
novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C. J. Box.

A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage - killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe's daughter.

At the same time, Dallas Cates, whom Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin.  He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property.

Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to methodically check off his list.  The problem is, both Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett are on it.

C. J. BOX is the author of twenty-four Joe Pickett novels, eight stand-alone novels, and a story collection.  He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, the Western Heritage Award for Literature, and two Spur Awards.  An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West.  He has been executive producer on shows based on his books, including ABC TV's Big Sky and Joe Pickett on Paramount+.

From amazon.com:

Publishers Weekly calls this fourth entry in Anthony Award winner and New York Times best-selling author C.J. Box's gripping Joe Pickett series "riveting." Trophy Hunt opens at the Wyoming game warden's chilling discovery of a mutilated moose. Although the sheriff believes the carnage was the act of a ravenous bear, Joe has a hunch something-or someone-much more sinister is to blame.

"A thriller of rare emotional depth that is at once riveti relentless, and impossible to put down."
- PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family, with devastating consequences.

The Cates family had always been a bad lot.  Joe had been able to strike a fierce blow against them when they'd critically endangered his daughter April, but he'd always wondered if there'd be a day of reckoning.

He's not wondering any longer.  Joe knows they're coming after him now.  He has his friend Nate Romanowski by his side, but will that be enough?  All he can do is plan, and wait for them to make the first move.  But when it comes, it is in a way for which
no amount of planning could have prepared him.

"The most suspenseful yet in this world-class series, setting a new standard for Box."
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"A stellar installment...  A compelling tale that rings with emotional resonance!" - ASSOCIATED PRESS

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett "strides in big boots over the ruggedly gorgeous landscape of C. J. Box's outdoor mysteries"
(The New York Times Book Review).

It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's detached steering wheel handcuffed to his right - and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him.  Lamar's murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm warn, get off the mountain.  But Joe knows this episode is far from over.  Somewhere in the dense timber, a killer draws his bowstring - with Joe as his prey...

"Winterkill proves that Box... is one of the best new voices in the mystery game.  [It's] a full-fledged thriller, Wyoming style."- ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

"Exquisite descriptions... [Box's] story moves smoothly and suspensefully to the showdown." - THE WASHINGTON POST

"Box proves he knows how to make every storm into a story."  - HOUSTON CHRONICLE

"Packed with a huge punch."  - THE DENVER POST