Book 1

Open Season

by C J Box

Published 9 July 2001
'When a high-powered bullet hits living flesh, it makes a distinctive - pow-WHOP - sound that is unmistakable even at a tremendous distance.' And so it begins for Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden who, with the shot of a rifle, is thrust into a race to save not...Read more

Book 1

Open Season (Movie Tie-In)

by C J Box

Published 21 December 2021
The first novel in the thrilling series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe who...Read more

Book 3

Winterkill

by C J Box

Published 1 April 2003
It's hours away from darkness with a bitter winter storm raging when Joe Pickett finds himself deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right - and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of...Read more

Book 4

Trophy Hunt

by C J Box

Published 1 July 2004
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.

Book 7

Free Fire

by C J Box

Published 10 May 2007
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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett hunts a mass murderer in Yellowstone in this thriller 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...Read more

Book 8

Blood Trail

by C J Box

Published 1 May 2008
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It's elk season in the Rockies, but a different kind of hunter is stalking prey in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Joe Pickett series.


Game wardens have found a man dead at a...Read more

Book 9

Below Zero

by C J Box

Published 16 June 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...Read more

Book 10

Nowhere to Run

by C J Box

Published 1 April 2010
It's Joe Pickett's last week as a 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. What awaits him is like something out of an...Read more

Book 11

Cold Wind

by C J Box

Published 1 March 2011

A body hangs from a wind turbine, a bullet hole in his chest: Earl Alden, millionaire property developer. His wife, Missy, is the prime suspect. It wouldn't be a problem for Joe Pickett, if Missy weren't his mother-in-law.

Missy claims she's innocent, and for his wife's sake, Joe would like...

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Book 12

Force of Nature

by C J Box

Published 1 January 2012

Joe Pickett's outlaw falconer companion, Nate Romanowski, faces the battle of his life and one he may very likely lose. His mysterious past comes back in the form of his former special forces colleague, an utterly ruthless soldier/homeland security official who knows his rise through the military and intelligence...

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Book 13

Breaking Point

by C J Box

Published 1 March 2013
Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman, who recently had his intended retirement property declared wetlands and is suspected in the murder of two EPA employees.

Book 14

Stone Cold

by C J Box

Published 11 March 2014

Everything about the man is a mystery...

No one knows where he came from, how he made his money or what's drawn him to the isolated Black Hills of North Wyoming. His generosity has won the locals over, but are his motives above suspicion?

After a string of disappearances,...

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Book 15

Endangered

by C J Box

Published 10 March 2015
Blood is always thicker than water.

Joe Pickett has good reason to dislike Dallas Cates. His eighteen-year-old foster daughter, April, has just run off with him.

Then comes even worse news: April has been found barely alive in a ditch along the highway, and the...Read more

Book 16

Off the Grid

by C J Box

Published 8 March 2016

There's no hiding off the grid.

Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, lying low while the FBI search for him. But they're not the only ones looking. Nate finds himself confronted by agents who need his help assessing a potential terror threat in Wyoming's Red...

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Book 17

Vicious Circle

by C J Box

Published 21 March 2017
The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow...Read more

Book 18

The Disappeared

by C J Box

Published 23 March 2018

No motive, no suspect, no trace.
Who doesn't want her found?

Joe Pickett is 300 miles from home, enduring the worst weather January in Wyoming can throw at you.

He's in the small mountain town of Saratoga, on the trail of a British woman who checked out of the...

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Book 19

Wolf Pack

by C J Box

Published 12 March 2019

THE HUNT IS ON.
The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back. The bad news is that Wyoming's Twelve Sleep County game warden is only days away from the most dangerous predators he's ever faced.

Joe's working with Katelyn Hamm, his counterpart in adjacent Shell County,...

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Book 20

Long Range

by C J Box

Published 3 March 2020
In the crosshairs, no one is safe.
In the new Joe Pickett novel, the Wyoming game warden must investigate an attempted assassination on his own turf...

Wyoming's Twelve Sleep County is shaken when a would-be assassin takes aim at a local judge. Their shot narrowly misses,...Read more

Book 21

Dark Sky

by C J Box

Published 2 March 2021

#1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box returns with a new Joe Pickett novel.

THE TIME HAS COME

It's a crisp October morning in Wyoming's Twelve Sleep County, and game warden Joe Pickett should be keeping watch over his patch. Instead, the state governor has roped him into leading Silicon Valley...

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Book 22

Shadows Reel

by C J Box

Published 3 March 2022
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife, Marybeth, make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers’ crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series.

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A day before the three Pickett...Read more