• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2015 February #1
  Is there a crime-fiction family as fully fleshed out as Joe Pickett's? In singing the praises of Box's series featuring the Wyoming game warden, we often praise the plotting, pacing, and the down-to-earth hero's friendship with force-of-nature Nate Romanowski. But Pickett's supporting cast—wife Marybeth and daughters Sheridan, Lucy, and April—lends a continuity and grounding to this series that sets it apart from all the lone-wolf stuff out there. And it's the adopted, troubled April who gets the fifteenth Pickett novel off to a troubling start when she's found beaten and unconscious in a ditch. Joe is sure he knows who did it but must reconcile his desire for immediate revenge with the sheriff's insistence on a by-the-book investigation. Meanwhile, the FBI is using Nate as bait to catch his fugitive former employer, and, despite it all, Joe must investigate a politically charged sage-grouse slaughter. As they often do, things get western, with the carefully constructed plot building to a breathless, thrilling end. And Joe's family, battered and bruised, carries on.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Box will be touring in person and over satellite radio, backed by the usual promotional blitz in print, electronic, and social media—but his hungry fans will already have this book on hold at the library. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.

C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Pickett series, five stand-alone novels, and the story collection Shots Fired. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38 and a French Elle magazine literary award. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He and his wife Laurie split their time between their home and ranch in Wyoming.

C. J. Box is the author of fifteen Joe Pickett novels, most recently Stone Cold; four stand-alones, most recently The Highway; and the story collectionShots Fired. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38. He lives outside Cheyenne, Wyoming, with his family.