Laconic Joe Pickett returns to his slightly offbeat duties in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains in C. J. Box's Savage Run. Joe is called to the scene when an exploding cow kills a famous ecoterrorist, Stewie Woods, and his bride of three days, who were peacefully spiking trees. A visit to the cow's pugnacious owner leaves Joe defensive, angry, and curious: Why doesn't the rancher ask any questions about the bizarre accident that happened on his land? Then...

Discovering that a friend and fellow game warden has committed suicide, Joe Pickett is assigned to the man's district in Jackson, Wyoming, and becomes a pawn in a struggle between environmental extremists and their powerful adversaries.

While it's elk season in the Rockies, it's obvious to Game Warden Joe Pickett that a different kind of hunter is on the prowl. The body of a hunter is found, strung up and gutted, and the only clues are a spent cartridge and a poker chip found lying next to the body. Fear resonates as a result and the governor is forced to end hunting season early.

"It begins with a phone message: Tell Sherry April called. And suddenly Joe Pickett's family is shaken to the core. April, Pickett's foster daughter, was murdered six years ago. His daughter Sherry starts to believe there's a chance April is still alive. Joe, however, remains suspicious, especially when he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where serious environmental crimes have occurred. And as the caller moves closer, unsettling...

Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and lying low while the FBI search for him. But they are not the only ones looking for him and Nate finds himself confronting an elite team of special forces soldiers. They're not there to take him in - they say - but to make a deal. They need his help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert, and in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear....

"A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to...

Driving his truck along treacherous Battle Mountain, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett discovers a murdered body just as a dangerous snowstorm hits and finds himself having to survive both the storm and a dangerous killer who has kidnapped his beloved foster daughter.

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. "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...

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?

The author of the Joe Pickett novels presents 10 suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well -- and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there -- in a collection that includes four stories that feature Pickett himself. 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...