Open Season

Are you looking for a new mystery series? Do you like a beautiful western setting with modern day cowboys and outlaws? Do you like your justice served with rawhide, gun oil, and cheap saloon pilsner? Look no further - welcome to the world of Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett whose heart is way bigger t......more

I will admit that I always wanted to be a game warden which undoubtedly prejudices me in favor of this novel. In Joe Pickett's Wyoming, political patronage to get the job is not mentioned. But keeping the job? That is quite political. With corruption, politics and big business all playing a part. Th......more

I’m glad I read Badlands by the same author first, as it led me to this one. This is Box’s first book and first in the popular Joe Pickett series. Open Season eventually becomes very good but it takes getting to the second half of the book to get that way. Box must get the back story in place and th......more

I read the first three Joe Pickett books back in the day. Enjoyed the first two books by C.J. Box, but there's a kidnapping in the third book and I don't handle kidnappings well. I took the books to Recycle Bookstore and moved onto another author. Now all these years later my wife is reading Joe Pic......more

the setup… Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming. He and his pregnant wife Mary Beth and two young daughters, Sheridan and Lucy, live in a small, state-owned home. Joe assumed his new role after his predecessor, a legend, decided to retire. But Joe apparently runs things very di......more