Reviews for Winterkill (Joe Pickett Series #3)

The average rating for Winterkill (Joe Pickett Series #3) based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-26 00:00:00 Lloyd Fisher A storm is brewing Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden with a large territory to cover and is usually by himself. He also often finds himself in unusual and embarrassing situations. This story opens with Joe parked in his truck watching a herd of elk in a meadow below. It is late in the hunting season and there is a storm warning for heavy snow later in the day. Suddenly shots ring out and several elk go down. It appears to be a single hunter. Joe goes to investigate and discovers that the shooter is a Forest Service Supervisor for the area, Lamar Gardiner. Drunk. Joe makes the arrest but then finds himself handcuffed to his steering wheel. He doesn't have keys to these handcuffs but he does have a Leatherman tool which he uses to detach the steering wheel. Hand cuffed to the steering wheel he sets off in pursuit. Embarrassing. All he wants to do is recapture the drunken fool and get back to town before the snow. But when he finds Lamar he has been murdered. Impaled to a tree with arrows and his throat slit. At the same time a group of anti-government radicals has moved in and taken over a Forest Service campground. Lamar Gardiner worked for the federal government and the Forest Service and FBI move in to take over the investigation into his death. They are convinced that the anti-government radicals are responsible and Saddlestring, Wyoming finds itself possibly being another Waco or Ruby Ridge. There are those in the Forrest Service and FBI who are more radical than the anti-government radicals. Psycho. And at least one anti-government radical who seems like a decent person. Caught in the middle are the innocent citizens of Saddlestring. Including Joe's foster daughter, April. Lots of messages in this story. What happens when the good guys are in actuality the bad guys? What lengths would you go to in order to protect your family? We meet Nate Romanowski who I believe will be in future stories. C.J. Box reminds us that sometimes we need someone like Nate. Looking forward to reading the next installment in this series.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-09-30 00:00:00 Greg Eller I decided to go meet the author at a Thursday evening event at the Highlands Ranch Library in Douglas County, so I checked out Winterkill on Monday. I only had time to read about half of it before his presentation, but I was hooked. And when I met CJ Box, it was like he just stepped out of his own book - I could tell that he writes his characters and his plots out of what he knows and loves. Box lives in Cheyenne, and his mysteries are set in Wyoming. Main character Joe Pickett is a game warden with a 5000 square mile territory. In Winterkill, the third in the series, the book opens with a bang (literally!). Joe hears gun shots and traces them to their source - a man who has opened fire on the last day of elk huntin season and kills more than half a dozen elk. To make matters worse, Joe knows the shooter. I could go on, but, trust me, just read the book - and the whole series - particularly if you live in the west and have traveled to Wyoming. Box gets it right.