Joe Pickett Series by C.J. Box, David Chandler, David Chandler

4.21 · 574 ratings
  • Open Season (Joe Pickett #1)
    #1

    Open Season (Joe Pickett #1)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings · published 2001

    There's nothing unusual about the sound of a gunshot in Twelve Sleep. Here in remotest Wyoming, where elk roam the pine forests and cougars prowl the mountains, everyone owns a gun. But when Joe Pickett hears two sharp cracks ring out months before hunting season, it's his job to investigate. As game warden in Twelve Sleep, father-of-two Joe Pickett is not only badly paid and poorly housed, but deeply unpopular... more

  • Savage Run (Joe Pickett #2)
    #2

    Savage Run (Joe Pickett #2)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 2002

    A Joe Pickett novel from #1"New York Times-"bestselling author C.J. Box. C.J. Box's debut novel, "Open Season," with its memorable hero, thrilling plot, and vivid settings, was hailed by critics as "suspenseful" (New York "Daily News"), "fascinating" (USA "Today"), and "heartfelt" ("The Washington Post Book World"), "a high-country "Presumed Innocent"that moves like greased lighting" ("Kirkus Reviews")... more

  • Winterkill (Joe Pickett #3)
    #3

    Winterkill (Joe Pickett #3)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2003

    Joe Pickett's pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn when his beloved foster daughter is kidnapped. Now it's personal.

  • Trophy Hunt (Joe Pickett #4)
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    Trophy Hunt (Joe Pickett #4)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2004

    It's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever - or whoever - attacked the animal was ruthless: half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh. Shaken by the sight, Joe starts to investigate what he hopes in an isolated incident... more

  • Dull Knife (Joe Pickett #4.5)
    #4.5

    Dull Knife (Joe Pickett #4.5)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2011

    A chilling short story of death and retribution from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Cold Wind." Twenty-two degrees below zero on a high mountain lake in Wyoming. Game warden Joe Pickett was carefully sliding across to check the licenses of a group of ice fishermen on the lake, when he saw the strange faint yellow glow coming from beneath the surface and, when he got closer, the thin, spindly, black thing sticking up in the middle of it... more

  • Out Of Range (Joe Pickett #5)
    #5

    Out Of Range (Joe Pickett #5)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2005

    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is about to become the hunted in this suspenseful thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.When a good friend and fellow warden kills himself, Joe Pickett is chosen to temporarily run his Teton district. But Jackson, Wyoming, is a far cry from Joe's hometown of Saddlestring—and it doesn't help that now Joe feels compelled to investigate the circumstances surrounding his friend's suicide... more

  • In Plain Sight (Joe Pickett #6)
    #6

    In Plain Sight (Joe Pickett #6)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2006

    A Joe Pickett novel from #1"New York Times-"bestselling author C.J. Box. When wealthy matriarch Opal Scarlett vanishes, Joe Pickett is sure one of her greedy sons did her in. But when Joe becomes the victim of violent pranks, he wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapter of his own past."

  • Free Fire (Joe Pickett #7)
    #7

    Free Fire (Joe Pickett #7)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2007

    A Joe Pickett novel from #1"New York Times-"bestselling author C.J. Box. Joe Pickett s been hired to investigate one of the most cold-blooded mass killings in Wyoming history. Attorney Clay McCann admitted to slaughtering four campers in a back-country corner of Yellowstone National Park a free-fire zone with no residents or jurisdiction. In this remote fifty-square-mile stretch a man can literally get away with murder... more

  • Blood Trail (Joe Pickett #8)
    #8

    Blood Trail (Joe Pickett #8)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2008

    A Joe Pickett novel from #1"New York Times-"bestselling author C.J. Box. Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp-strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting. Is the murder the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer and stop him before someone declares open season on humans."

  • Below Zero (Joe Pickett #9)
    #9

    Below Zero (Joe Pickett #9)

    C.J. Box, David Chandler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2009

    A new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar(r) Award-winning author of Blood Trail. Six years ago, Joe Pickett's foster daughter, April, was murdered. Now, someone is leaving phone messages claiming to be the dead girl. As his family struggles with the disturbing event, he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where serious environmental crimes have occurred. And as the phone calls grow closer, so does the danger.

  • Nowhere To Run (Joe Pickett #10)
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    Nowhere To Run (Joe Pickett #10)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2010

    Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesn't mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home. And he is right to be concerned... more

  • Cold Wind (Joe Pickett #11)
    #11

    Cold Wind (Joe Pickett #11)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2011

    Updated cover of this Kindle edition.Joe Pickett investigates a murder that hits close to home in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, his wife, Missy, is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his much-disliked mother-in-law, and he’s not sure what to do—especially since it looks like Missy is guilty as sin... more

  • Force of Nature (Joe Pickett #12)
    #12

    Force of Nature (Joe Pickett #12)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2012

    Updated cover of this Kindle edition. Joe Pickett’s friend’s past comes back to haunt everyone he cares about in this “violent, bloody, and quite satisfying thriller”* from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. In 1995, Nate Romanowski was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible... more

  • Breaking Point (Joe Pickett #13)
    #13

    Breaking Point (Joe Pickett #13)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2013

    It was always good to see Butch Roberson, Joe thought—a hard-working, upright local business owner whose daughter was friends with his own. Little did he know that when he talked to Butch that day, the man was about to disappear. He was heading into the mountains to hunt, he said, but instead he was running. Two EPA employees had just been murdered, and all signs pointed to him as the killer... more

  • Stone Cold (Joe Pickett #14)
    #14

    Stone Cold (Joe Pickett #14)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2014

    The electrifying new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Everything about the man is a mystery: the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances. And especially the persistent rumors that the man’s wealth comes from killing people... more

  • Shots Fired (Joe Pickett #14.5)
    #14.5

    Shots Fired (Joe Pickett #14.5)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2014

    From C. J. Box, the New York Times-bestselling author of the Joe Pickett novels, comes a thrilling book of suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well—and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there. Over the course of eighteen books, C. J. Box has been consistently hailed for his brilliant storytelling and extraordinary skills at creating character, suspense, and a deep sense of place... more

  • Endangered (Joe Pickett #15)
    #15

    Endangered (Joe Pickett #15)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2015

    New York Times–bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more—Joe’s eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway—alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma... more

  • Off the Grid (Joe Pickett #16)
    #16

    Off the Grid (Joe Pickett #16)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2016

    New York Times–bestselling author C. J. Box returns with a suspenseful new Joe Pickett novel. Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and trying to deal with past crimes, when he is suddenly surrounded by a small team of elite professional special operators. They’re not there to threaten him, but to make a deal. They need help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming’s Red Desert, and in return they’ll make Nate’s criminal record disappear... more

  • Vicious Circle (Joe Pickett #17)
    #17

    Vicious Circle (Joe Pickett #17)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2017

    SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, C.J. BOX! The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box. 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. The Cates family had always been a bad lot... more

  • The Disappeared (Joe Pickett #18)
    #18

    The Disappeared (Joe Pickett #18)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2018

    Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. Three British executives, all women, never came home from the high-end guest ranch they were 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 three disappearances? That's too many... more

  • Wolf Pack (Joe Pickett #19)
    #19

    Wolf Pack (Joe Pickett #19)

    C.J. Box, David Chandler

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2019

    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf--only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down.The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. 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 grandson is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy... more

  • Long Range (Joe Pickett #20)
    #20

    Long Range (Joe Pickett #20)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2020

    #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box returns with a blazing new Joe Pickett novel, in which the Wyoming game warden must investigate a murder that happens on his turf--a murder committed from a confoundingly long distance.The wife of a prominent local judge is shot and killed on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's turf. But as Joe investigates, all signs point to the shot having been taken from an impossibly long distance... more

  • Dark Sky (Joe Pickett #21)
    #21

    Dark Sky (Joe Pickett #21)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2021

    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... more

  • Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett #22)
    #22

    Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett #22)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2022

    Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett’s job has many times put his wife and daughters in harm’s way. Now the tables turn as his wife discovers something that puts the Pickett family in a killer’s crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series.A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Marybeth Pickett finds an unmarked package at the front door of the library where she works... more

  • Storm Watch (Joe Pickett #23)
    #23

    Storm Watch (Joe Pickett #23)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2023

    Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.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, Joe finds the professor's vehicle parked on a remote mountainside... more

  • Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)
    #24

    Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

    C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2024

    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human—in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage—killing, among others, the fiancee of Joe’s daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a list of six names tattooed on his skin... more

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