Tag Archives: CJ Box

Shots Fired

Posted on April 24, 2025 by smellincoffee

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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Endangered

Posted on April 23, 2025 by smellincoffee

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 →

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Stone Cold

Posted on April 22, 2025 by smellincoffee

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 →

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Breaking Point

Posted on April 21, 2025 by smellincoffee

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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Force of Nature

Posted on April 1, 2025 by smellincoffee

One of Joe Pickett’s few friends and allies is a federal fugitive named Nate Romanowski.  To be fair,  Joe didn’t know Nate was a fugitive when they became friends, only that he had a shady past as a member of … Continue reading →

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Cold wind

Posted on March 31, 2025 by smellincoffee

Joe Pickett, Game Warden, is not a fan of his mother-in-law, but he wouldn’t figure her for murder. One morning while making his rounds and checking herds, he notices something odd about the wind turbines being installed on the far … Continue reading →

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Nowhere to Run

Posted on March 24, 2025 by smellincoffee

Warning: this review contains partial spoilers for Winterkill and Below Zero.  Joe Pickett is finally about to go home to Saddlestring after an exile in Baggs, where the governor sent him to keep a low profile – but there’s something … Continue reading →

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Below Zero

Posted on March 23, 2025 by smellincoffee

Warning: this review contains spoilers for Winterkill, #2 in the Joe Pickett series by CJ Box. Joe Pickett is cooling his heels in the hind quarters of Wyoming, thanks to ….uh, well, let’s just say repeated acts of insubordination in … Continue reading →

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Blood Trail

Posted on March 22, 2025 by smellincoffee

Terror in the deep woods! A hunter has been deliberately killed, then field-dressed like a deer. The gruesome sight makes Wyoming law enforcement realize that two prior ‘accidents’ may be connected, and Joe Pickett, Game Warden at Large, is asked … Continue reading →

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Free Fire

Posted on March 20, 2025 by smellincoffee

These days when Joe Pickett is building fences, it’s on his wife’s mother’s husband’s ranch property, rather than for the State of Wyoming. Joe’s tendency to get into trouble pursuing the truth, coupled with the appointment of a vindictive weasel … Continue reading →

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