Tag Archives: CJ Box

Battle Mountain

Posted on May 6, 2025 by smellincoffee

WARNING: This review contains a prominent spoiler for Three Inch Teeth and Shadows Reel. Proceed with caution, pilgrim.  Joe Pickett and Nate Romanowski are both wounded men,  having come close to losing all that was dearest to them at the … Continue reading →

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Three Inch Teeth

Posted on May 5, 2025 by smellincoffee

Joe Pickett’s future son-in-law just got eaten by a bear. Granted,  like most men Joe was a little wary about idea of son-in-laws in general, but Sheridan was fond of the boy and he’d rather no one get eaten by … Continue reading →

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Storm Watch

Posted on May 3, 2025 by smellincoffee

While out and about doing Game Warden-type things,  Joe Pickett notices something odd. There’s a movable building of some sort hidden  away on a ranch property, and a man who appears to be stuck with his head in the window.  … Continue reading →

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Shadows Reel

Posted on May 2, 2025 by smellincoffee

Game Warden Joe Pickett has been told about a dead moose on someone’s property, and has gone to investigate to see if it’s natural causes or someone winging a moose out of season and then living the poor creature to … Continue reading →

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Dark Sky

Posted on May 1, 2025 by smellincoffee

Joe Pickett has been asked by the governor to do something he’d….really, really, rather not do.  The governor wants him to take Elon Musk hunting. Well, not really:   the character’s name is Steve-Two, and he’s an eccentric techbro who … Continue reading →

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Wolf Pack

Posted on April 30, 2025 by smellincoffee

Joe Pickett is back on the job riding the ranges, documenting wolf expansion into the Bighorns, and trying to figure out who is using a large drone to frighten elk and deer herds around. He doesn’t just find the drone … Continue reading →

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The Disappeared

Posted on April 28, 2025 by smellincoffee

Joe Pickett has a problem. The new governor,  who is a bully and an ass, has discovered that Joe used to do a little investigating for the former governor on the sly,  especially when local authorities were regarded as corrupt … Continue reading →

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Vicious Circle

Posted on April 26, 2025 by smellincoffee

Warning: this review contains substantial spoilers for Endangered. Two years ago, rodeo star and all-around-terrible-human being Dallas Cates was imprisoned  for multiple accounts of wanton elk destruction, an almost anticlimactic end to his family’s war against the state of Wyoming … Continue reading →

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Off the Grid

Posted on April 25, 2025 by smellincoffee

Warning: This review contains partial/mild spoilers for Endangered.  While attending a rally for a governor’s race on behalf of his wife-the-librarian who needs the presumed gubernatorial winner’s support to renovate her library,  Game Warden Joe Pickett bumps into the current … Continue reading →

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Ten Things I’ve Loved about the Joe Pickett Series

Posted on April 24, 2025 by smellincoffee

Today at lunch, I finished Battle Mountain and am therefore caught up with the Joe Pickett series. While it’s partially a relief to be able to read something else, I have rather enjoyed my habit in the last two months … Continue reading →

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