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1) Storm watch
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 23
Language
English
Description
"When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor's vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor's frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents,...
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect... 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...
3) Winterkill
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
The arrow-riddled corpse of Lamar Gardiner, district supervisor for the Twelve Sleep National Forest, and the bodies of seven illegally shot elk start Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett on a pursuit that endangers the life of his beloved foster daughter April. Box's latest novel once again centers around the environment and land management, adding a dose of realism to the rough-and-tumble action, which works well with the realistic characters and Western...
4) Trophy hunt
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
It's an idyllic late summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever-or whoever-attacked the animal was ruthless: Half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh. Shaken by the assault, Pickett begins to investigate what he hopes is an isolated incident. Joe's worst fears are realized when the bodies...
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
He never wanted to tell Joe Pickett about it, but Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past. Now it's here, and it may not only be the battle of his life -- but of Joe's. In 1995, Nate was in a secret Special Forces unit abroad when a colleague did something terrible. Now high up in the government, the man is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it, and Nate knows exactly how he'll do it -- by striking at Nate's friends...
6) Cold wind
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
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? He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife...
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett's life is complicated by a serious of complex crimes which he comes to realize have some connection with his own past.
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesn't mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home. And he is...
9) Off the grid
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
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 Desert -- in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear. Nate knows they can't be trusted -- but with his liberty at stake, he has to comply... for now. Meanwhile,...
10) The disappeared
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
"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...
11) Shots fired
Author
Series
Joe Pickett volume 14.5
Language
English
Description
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...
12) Free fire
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett, having recently been fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law's ranch when he receives a call from the governor's office. Governor Rulon-a devious but down-home politico-has a special request, one Joe knows he can't refuse. For weeks, the headlines have been abuzz with the story of Clay McCann, a lawyer who slaughtered four campers in cold blood in a far-off corner of Yellowstone National Park. After...
13) Endangered
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
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...
14) Stone cold
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
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...
15) Below zero
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Below Zero begins with an unassuming phone message: 'Tell Sherry April called. But Sherry — Joe Pickett's oldest daughter, Sheridan — and the Pickett family are shaken to the core. April, Pickett's foster daughter, was killed in a horrific murder and arson spree six years prior. To Joe, it doesn't seem even remotely possible that April could have survived the massacre. He was there. But Sherry starts to believe there's a chance that April is still...
16) Blood trail
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Itś elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of 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, and flayed, as if he were the elk hed́ 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...
17) Breaking point
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
It was always good to see Lyle Pendergast, Joe thought -- a hard-working, upright local business owner whose daughter was friends with his own. Little did he know that when he talked to Lyle that day, the man was about to disappear. He was heading into the mountains to hunt, he said, but instead he was running. Two EPA employees had just been murdered, and all signs pointed to him as the killer. As the manhunt organized itself, Joe heard more of the...
18) Shadows reel
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
"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...
19) Open season
Author
Publisher
Berkely Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett, a rookie game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, decides to investigate when he finds a local hunting outfitter dead in his woodpile, and believes the murder is linked to the discovery of an endangered species which would derail plans by InterWest to build a natural gas pipeline across the state.
20) Dark sky
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The governor of Wyoming gives Joe the thankless assignment of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip. Unbeknownst to them, a man-hunter is hot on their heels. 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 charge. Meanwhile, when Joe's closest friend, Nate Romanowski, and Joe's daughter Sheridan learn of the threat to his life, they follow...
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