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Book Recommendation: Cold Wind by C. J. Box

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Book Recommendation: Cold Wind by C. J. Box

 

Cold Wind (2011) is volume number eleven of the series of novels featuring Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett by The New York Times bestselling American author C. J. Box. I enjoyed this novel and recommend it and this twenty book series for your reading list. Click on the links to learn more about the author and his books.

 

C.J. Box

C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in 2017. The novels have been translated into 27 languages.

Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co-owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. They have three daughters. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. Box lives in Wyoming.

 

Books by C. J. Box

 

Goodreads Review of Cold Wind

The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author. 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 on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck. Whichever way this goes . . . it's not going to be good.

 

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Roy Kelley, Retired, Former Associate Broker, RE/MAX Realty Group

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Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Chicago, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

Good morning Roy. So much fiction. So little time. Read on! Enjoy your next book.

Jan 30, 2020 04:23 AM
Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty
Waves Realty - Melbourne, FL
Florida Space Coast Homes

It is amazing to me to see how prolific C.J. Box is. I had no idea he also had all those other interests...wow

Jan 30, 2020 07:25 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Books by C. J. Box

The Joe Pickett Novels: Open Season (2001), Savage Run (2002), Winterkill (2003), Trophy Hunt (2004), Out of Range (2005), In Plain Sight (2006), Free Fire (2007), Blood Trail (2008), Below Zero (2009), Nowhere to Run (2010), Cold Wind (2011), Force of Nature (2012), Breaking Point (2013), Stone Cold(2014), Endangered (2015), Off The Grid (2016), Vicious Circle (2017), The Disappeared (2018), Wolf Pack (2019), Long Range (2020).

The Stand Alone Novels: Blue Heaven (2008), Three Weeks to Say Goodbye (2009), Back of Beyond(2011), The Highway (2013), Badlands (2015), Paradise Valley (2017), The Bitterroots (2019).

Short Stories: Shots Fired: Stories From Joe Pickett Country (2014).

Jan 30, 2020 08:16 AM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Roy,

I have to say that CJ Box is quite prolific, and this one has a very treacherous and complicated plot.  I love the photo!  A

Jan 30, 2020 08:26 AM
Myrl Jeffcoat
Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Realtor - Retired

"Cold Wind sounds like another great read for C.J. Box fans out there, Roy.  Also, I love that picture of the adorable little owl in comment #9.

Jan 30, 2020 01:06 PM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you are reading a good book.

Jan 30, 2020 01:49 PM