C. J Box
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 14.5
Language
English
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Description
A collection of stories mostly about Wyoming-- and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there. Though not all of the stories feature Joe Pickett, they are all quirky, surprising crime stories that demonstrate Box's versatility with a diverse array of ideas.
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English
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A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder--four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. William and Annie's...
23) The highway
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
383 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 hear from them. The girls--and their car--simply vanish. Former police investigator Cody Hoyt has just lost his job and fallen off the wagon. Convinced by his son, who the girls were coming to visit, and his former rookie partner Cassie Dewell, he sets out for the girls' last known location.
24) Breaking point
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 13
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
It was always good to see Butch Roberson, Joe thought--a hardworking, upright local business owner whose daughter was friends with his own. Little did he know that when he talked to Butch that day in the forest, the man was about to disappear. He was heading into the mountains to scout elk, he said, but instead he was running. Two EPA employees had just been murdered, and all signs pointed to him as the killer. As the manhunt organized itself, Joe...
25) A cold wind
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 11
Language
English
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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?
26) Nowhere to run
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 10
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's Joe Pickett's last week as temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine months after the McGuanes adopt a daughter, they learn that the birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights, and when they try to handle the situation personally, they learn something unsettling about the boy and his father, a powerful judge in Denver, while trying to protect their child.
28) Out of range
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Game warden Joe Pickett's attempts to enjoy his mother-in-law's wedding to a local big-shot rancher is disturbed when Joe receives word that a fellow warden and friend, Will Jensen, has killed himself, leaving Joe to temporarily run his district and investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding his friend's death.
29) Winterkill
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The arrow-riddled corpse of Lamar Gardiner, district supervisor for the Twelve Sleep National Forest, and the bodies of seven illegally shot elk start Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett on a pursuit that endangers the life of his beloved foster daughter April.
30) Force of nature
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 12
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
385 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1995, Nate Romanowski was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible. Now the high-ranking government official and cold-blooded sociopath is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it—like Nate, who’s hidden himself away in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. And he knows exactly how Nemecek will do it—by targeting Nate's friends to draw him out. That includes his friend, game warden Joe Pickett,...
31) Trophy hunt
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Local authorities are quick to label a rash of animal mutilations as the work of a grizzly bear, but Joe Pickett suspects that something far more sinister is afoot. When the bodies of two men are found disfigured in the same way, his worst fears are confirmed - a modern-day Jack the Ripper is on the loose.
32) Back of beyond
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody...
33) MATCHUP (CD)
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
13 sound discs (930 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This takes the never before seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist, gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille.
34) The Highway
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The inspiration for the hit ABC television series Big Sky.
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.
"If C.J. Box isn't already on your list, put him there."—USA Today
When two sisters set out across a remote stretch of Montana road to visit their friend,
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller, is a collaboration between twenty bestselling mystery novelists who have joined forces to create a spellbinding story of love, betrayal, and intrigue. "Readers can't go wrong with this juicy thriller" raves Library Journal.
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past—a former cop who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced....
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past—a former cop who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced....