C. J Box
1) Storm watch
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Series
Joe Pickett volume 23
Language
English
Description
When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor's vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor's frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents,...
2) Dark sky
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Series
Joe Pickett volume 21
Language
English
Description
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must accompany a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip--but soon learns that he himself may be the hunted--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. When the governor of Wyoming gives Joe Pickett the thankless task of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip, Joe reluctantly treks into the wilderness with his high-profile charge. But as they venture into the woods, a man-hunter...
3) Open season
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves.
Author
Series
Joe Pickett volume 18
Language
English
Description
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 female British executive never came home from the high-end guest ranch she was visiting, and the British Embassy is pressing hard. Pickett knows that happens sometimes--these ranches are stocked with handsome young cowboys, and "ranch romances" aren't uncommon. But no sign of her months after she vanished? That suggests something...
6) Savage run
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Series
Language
English
Description
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett heads for the forests of Twelve Sleep County to investigate a massive explosion that may have killed an environmental activist and uncovers evidence of a deadly conspiracy.
7) Blood trail
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Series
Joe Pickett volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett is governor Rulon's instinctive choice to track the gruesome murder of a hunter at the start of the elk season in the Rockies. The community is fearful and wonders whether the killer is a psychopath or a deranged anti-hunting activist.
8) Winterkill
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett finds himself at the center of a confrontation between a special investigative team and a group of government-hating survivalists campedout on federal land. With the help of a mysterious stranger, Joe lays his life on the line to protect an innocent girl before a wave of violence surges over the Bighorn Mountains.
9) Trophy hunt
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Series
Language
English
Description
Shaken by the brutal killing of a wild moose, game warden Joe Pickett becomes increasingly alarmed when a herd of cattle, and then two people, are murdered by the same perpetrator.
10) Vicious circle
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Series
Joe Pickett volume 17
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it. And Joe knew that he might be their next target.
11) Free fire
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Series
Language
English
Description
When four environmental activists employed by Yellowstone Park are murdered in an isolated area, the Wyoming governor sends outspoken Joe Pickett, from the state's game and fish department, to investigate.
12) Stone cold
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Series
Language
English
Description
Investigating allegations about a hit man who lives a life of wealth and secrecy on a remote Wyoming ranch, troubleshooter Joe Pickett discovers two men at the ranch including a ruthless killer and a disturbing person from his past.
13) Off the grid
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When an elite special ops team recruits him to help defeat a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert in exchange for expunging his criminal record, Nate Romanowski, assisted by Joe Pickett, discovers a sinister agenda behind the operation.
14) In plain sight
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them have done her in, and when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly violent pranks, Joe wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapters of his own past. Whoever is after him...
15) Cold wind
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in- law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do --especially when the early signs point to her being 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?
16) Force of nature
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Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
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,...
17) Below zero
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Shocked by a phone message that his believed-dead foster daughter may still be alive, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett becomes increasingly suspicious when subsequent calls are placed from locations where serious crimes have occurred.
18) Shadows reel
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Series
Joe Pickett volume 22
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Series
Joe Pickett volume 19
Language
English
Description
The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife--and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy. When Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he's asked by the FBI and the DOJ to stand down, which only makes him more suspicious. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up in and around Joe's district in shocking numbers....
20) Long range
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Series
Joe Pickett volume 20
Language
English
Description
"When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. While the judge was not hit,...