C. J. Box
All Books By C. J. Box
Below Zero
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 03, 2009
- Language: English
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4.19(9002 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box’s Below Zero is the 9th novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. The telephone calls from her stepdaughter April send chills down the spine of Joe’s daughter Sherry. Wasn’t April murdered six years ago in a bloody massacre? Wondering how this youthful caller knows details only April could know, Sherry becomes confused while Joe grows suspicious. Is the caller April-or are Joe and his family victims of a cruel hoax?
... Read moreBlood Trail
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 26, 2008
- Language: English
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4.28(10236 ratings)
It’s elk season in the Rockies, but this year one hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains – strung up, gutted, skinned, and beheaded, as if he were the elk he’d been pursuing. A spent cartridge and a poker chip lie next to his body. Ripples of horror spread through the community, and with a possibly psychotic killer on the loose, Governor Rulon is forced to end hunting season early for the first time in state history – outraging hunters and potentially crippling the state’s income from the loss of hunting license revenue. But when the brutal murders eerily coincide with the arrival of radical anti-hunting activist Klamath Moore, Pickett knows the Governor’s ruling is the least of his worries. Are the murders the work of a deranged activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? As always, Joe Pickett is the governor’s go-to man, and he’s put on the case to track the murderous hunter, as more bodies – and poker chips – turn up.
... Read moreBreaking Point
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 12, 2013
- Language: English
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4.35(9374 ratings)
The recipient of Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box has won almost every honor in his field. In Breaking Point, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is glad to catch up with old friend Butch Roberson, but then the man goes missing and is named a suspect in the death of two EPA employees. All signs point to Butch’s guilt, but the more Joe digs into the case, the more he realizes he’s stepped into the middle of a deadly power play.
... Read moreEdgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Award winner C. J. Box’s novels featuring game warden Joe Pickett are full of breathtaking thrills. Cold Wind, the 11th tale in the series, finds Pickett’s mother-in-law suspected of murdering her husband. Pickett cannot stand the woman, and all the evidence is pointing straight toward her. Caught up in an investigation that is already personal, Pickett tries his best to keep things from getting too messy.
... Read moreWyoming game warden Joe Pickett must guide 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. But as they venture into the woods, a manhunter is hot on
their heels, driven by a desire for revenge. Finding himself without a weapon, a horse, or a way to communicate, Joe must rely on his wits and his knowledge of the outdoors to protect himself and his companion.
Meanwhile, Joe’s closest friend, Nate Romanowski, and his own daughter Sheridan learn of the threat to Joe’s life and follow him into the woods. In a stunning final showdown, the three of them come up against the worst that nature–and man–have to offer.
... Read moreEndangered
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 10, 2015
- Language: English
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4.37(9400 ratings)
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. It is April, and the doctors aren’t sure if she’ll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with it-says she ran away from him, too-and there’s evidence that points to another man. But Joe knows in his gut who’s responsible. What he doesn’t know is the kind of danger he’s about to encounter. Cates is bad enough, but Cates’s family is like none Joe has ever met before. Joe’s going to find out the truth, even if it kills him. But this time, it just might.
... Read moreForce of Nature
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 20, 2012
- Language: English
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4.34(10779 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box delivers a novel starring Joe Pickett’s sidekick, fan-favorite Nate Romanowski. In Force of Nature, trouble comes calling from Nate’s past in the Special Forces, and the colleague he once called friend won’t stop until those who know a deadly secret are silenced. Everyone close to Nate is at risk, including Joe and his family. To save them, Nate will have to convince law-abiding Joe to finally break a few rules along the way.
... Read moreBest-selling author C. J. Box-an Anthony and Macavity Award winner-earned starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist for this exceptional mystery. Taking advantage of a legal loophole, a lawyer kills four people in Yellowstone National Park and walks away a free man. As the public outcry intensifies, the governor hires former game warden Joe Pickett to conduct a private investigation.
... Read moreIn Plain Sight
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 23, 2008
- Language: English
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4.22(8767 ratings)
C. J. Box has won a host of awards, including the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry. In Plain Sight sees game warden Joe Pickett’s life take a turn for the worse after millionaire Opal Scarlett goes missing. As Pickett discovers more and more disturbing truths, it becomes clear that someone wants the dogged game warden to keep his nose out of the investigation.
... Read moreLong Range
- By: C. J. Box
- Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 03, 2020
- Language: English
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4.41(12646 ratings)
#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. When the wife of a prominent local judge is wounded on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett’s turf, all signs point to the shot having been taken from an impossible distance. At the same time–just as he’s adjusting to the arrival of his first child–Joe’s best friend, Nate Romanowski, is suspected of being the assassin. All this happens while Joe is attempting to decipher a startling grizzly attack. Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe.
... Read moreNowhere to Run
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 04, 2010
- Language: English
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4.28(9387 ratings)
Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Award winner C. J. Box crafts the 10th explosive entryfrom his acclaimed Joe Pickett series. When bizarre incidents start piling up, including the disappearance of afemale runner, Joe heads into the mountains near Baggs, Wyoming, to investigate. It doesn’t take long before therugged game warden wishes he hadn’t bothered. “. an intense story . Highly recommendedLibrary Journal
... Read moreOff the Grid
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 08, 2016
- Language: English
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4.27(9010 ratings)
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. But they are not what they seem, as Nate’s friend Joe Pickett discovers. They have a much different plan in mind, and it just may be something that takes them all down-including Nate and Joe.
... Read moreOpen Season
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 21, 2010
- Language: English
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3.98(26895 ratings)
C.J. Box’s Open Season is a rare debut mystery that “immediately sets itself apart from the crowd” (Booklist). This thrilling novel stars Joe Pickett, a game warden in Wyoming who finds his life in danger after he looks into a murder investigation and discovers a conspiracy involving an oil pipeline and its threat to an endangered species. “Box remains square on target throughout this superb debut.”-Booklist
... Read moreOut of Range
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 08, 2009
- Language: English
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4.25(10902 ratings)
C. J. Box’s best-selling Joe Pickett novels have earned him a spot on every serious suspense fan’s shortlist of favorites. The tightly constructed Out of Range brings game warden Joe to a new, remote beat in Wyoming’s vast countryside to investigate the suspicious death of the previous warden. “. if anything, Box is getting better. Recommended for practically everybody.” -Booklist, starred review
... Read moreSavage Run
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 25, 2011
- Language: English
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4.13(15209 ratings)
An Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Award winner, C. J. Box delivers the second pulse-pounding installment in his critically acclaimed series. While investigating a string of bizarre murders, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is forced to flee across treacherous terrain with a deadly tracker on his trail. “Picturesque detailing, admirable prose, and agitating suspense demonstrate the appeal of this follow-up to Box’s Edgar nominated debut.”-Library Journal
... Read moreShadows Reel
- By: C. J. Box
- Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 08, 2022
- Language: English
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4.19(14612 ratings)
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.
A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Joe is called out for a moose-poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally tortured and murdered. At the same time,
Marybeth opens an unmarked package at the library where she works and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Who left it there? And why?
She learns that during World War II, several Wyoming soldiers were part of the first American company to reach Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat in the Alps–and one of them took the Fuhrer’s personal photo album. Did another take this one and
keep it all these years? When a close neighbor is murdered, Joe and Marybeth face new questions: Who is after the book? And how will they solve its mystery before someone hurts them … or their girls?
Meanwhile, Nate Romanowski is on the hunt for the man who stole his falcons and attacked his wife. Using a network of fellow falconers, Nate tracks the man from one city to another. Even as he grasps the true threat his quarry presents,
Nate swoops in for the kill–and a stunning final showdown.
Shots Fired
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 15, 2014
- Language: English
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4(3083 ratings)
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. All of those strengths are in the ten riveting stories– three of them never before published– that make up Shots Fired . In ” One-Car Bridge,” one of four Joe Pickett stories, Pickett goes up against a ” just plain mean” landowner, with disastrous results, and in ” Shots Fired,” his investigation into the radio call referred to in the title nearly ends up being the last thing he ever does. In ” Pirates of Yellowstone,” two Eastern European tough guys find out what it means to be strangers in a strange land, and in ” Le Sauvage Noble,” the stranger is a Lakota in Paris who enjoys playing the ” noble savage” for the French women– until he meets Sophie. Then he discovers what ” savage” really means.
... Read moreStone Cold
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 11, 2014
- Language: English
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4.26(8873 ratings)
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. Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out what the truth is, but he discovers a lot more than he’ d bargained for. There are two other men living up at that ranch. One is a stone-cold killer who takes an instant dislike to Joe. The other is new– but Joe knows him all too well. The first man doesn’ t frighten Joe. The second is another story entirely.
... Read moreStorm Watch
- By: C. J. Box
- Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 28, 2023
- Language: English
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4.33(7845 ratings)
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 Timesbestselling author C. J. Box.While tracking a wounded elk in the midst of an epic Rocky Mountain spring snowstorm, Joe Pickett makes a startling and gruesome discovery: the frozen and mutilated body of a man who has obviously trespassed on a private ranch and was killed near the location of a mysterious high-tech structure. Joe also finds the man’s vehicle on an isolated mountainside—the victim’s ID indicates that he is a prominent University of Wyoming professor. When Joe attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents, extremists, and Governor Colter Allen.Nate Romanowski is rebuilding his falconry company—and financing this through crypto mining with the assistance of Geronimo Jones. Nate is then approached by a shadowy group of local militant activists that is gaining in power and influence, and demanding that Wyoming join other western states and secede from the union—by force, if necessary. They ask Nate to throw in with them, but he’s wary. Should he trust them, or is he being set up?As a storm of peril gathers around them, Joe and Nate confront it in different ways—and maybe, for the first time, on opposite sides.
... Read moreThe Best American Mystery Stories 2020
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: Dan John Miller
- Length: 16 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 03, 2020
- Language: English
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3.92(582 ratings)
A collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award–winning author C. J. Box.
C. J. Box , #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual “treat for crime-fiction fans” (Library Journal).
 
The Disappeared
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 27, 2018
- Language: English
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4.23(9458 ratings)
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has two cases to contend with, both of them lethal, in the electrifying new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Wyoming’s new governor isn’t sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. A prominent female British executive never came home from the high-end guest ranch she was 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 no sign of her months after she vanished? That suggests something else. At the same time, his friend Nate Romanowski has asked Joe to intervene with the feds on behalf of falconers who can no longer hunt with eagles even though their permits are in order. Who is blocking the falconers and why? The more he investigates both cases, the more someone wants him to go away. Is it because of the missing woman or because he’s become Nate’s advocate? Or are they somehow connected? The answers, when they come, will be even worse than he’d imagined.
... Read moreTrophy Hunt
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 29, 2011
- Language: English
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4.12(10188 ratings)
Publishers Weekly calls this fourth entry in Anthony Award winner and New York Times best-selling author C.J. Box’s gripping Joe Pickett series “riveting.” Trophy Hunt opens at the Wyoming game warden’s chilling discovery of a mutilated moose. Although the sheriff believes the carnage was the act of a ravenous bear, Joe has a hunch something-or someone-much more sinister is to blame.
... Read moreVicious Circle
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 21, 2017
- Language: English
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4.28(7985 ratings)
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. Game warden Joe Pickett had been able to strike a fierce blow against them when the life of his daughter April had been endangered, but he’d always wondered if there’d be a day of reckoning. He’s not wondering any longer. Joe knows they’re coming after him and his family now. He has his friend Nate by his side, but will that be enough this time? All he can do is prepare . . . and wait for them to make the first move.
... Read moreWinterkill
- By: C. J. Box
- Narrator: C. J. Box
- Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 12, 2013
- Language: English
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4.23(12560 ratings)
In the third adventure in C. J. Box’s engrossing series, Joe Pickett finds himself at the center of a confrontation between a special investigative team and a group of government-hating survivalists campedout on federal land. With the help of a mysterious stranger, Joe lays his life on the line to protect an innocent girl before a wave of violence surges over the Bighorn Mountains.
... Read moreWyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf–only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down–in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box. 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. When Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he’s asked by the FBI and the DOJ to stand down, which only makes him more suspicious. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up in and around Joe’s district in shocking numbers. He begins to fear that a pack of four vicious killers working on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel known as the Wolf Pack have arrived. Their target seems to be the mystery man and everyone–including Joe, Nate, and others–who are associated with him. Teaming up with a female game warden (based on a real person, one of the few female game wardens at work in Wyoming today) to confront these assassins, Joe finds himself in the most violent and dangerous predicament he’s ever faced.
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