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Tag Archives: CJ Box
The Disappeared
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
Vicious Circle
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
Off the Grid
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
Ten Things I’ve Loved about the Joe Pickett Series
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
Shots Fired
Shots Fired is a bit of a stray on the CJ Box book ranch, a collection of short stories rather than a Pickett novel – and some of the stories don’t even involve Joe! Interestingly, there’s also a bit of … Continue reading
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Tagged CJ Box, Fiction 2025, historical fiction, modern western, short story collection
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Endangered
Game Warden Joe Pickett has just discovered a massacre. Someone has slaughtered over twenty sage grouse – nearly an entire breeding group – and left their bodies to rot, shooting them just for malevolent thrills. Joe goes to work processing … Continue reading
Stone Cold
There’s something rotten in the state of Wyoming – and specifically, the county of Medicine Wheel, in the northern reaches of the state. Seems in the last few years some financial grandee retired there and has been buying up everything, … Continue reading
Breaking Point
While on patrol counting herds and listening for sounds of poachers, Game Warden Joe Pickett notices a Forestry fence that’s been cut. Upon investigation the warden realizes this fence was cut relatively recently, and whoever did it may still be … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, CJ Box, Fiction 2025, modern western, mystery, thriller
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