As game warden in Twelve Sleep, father-of-two Joe Pickett is not only badly paid and poorly housed, but deeply unpopular. But when Joe Pickett hears two sharp cracks ring out months before hunting season, it's his job to investigate. Here in remotest Wyoming, where elk roam the pine forests and cougars prowl the mountains, everyone owns a gun. Winner of 2009's highly coveted Edgar Award for Best Novel Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel Winner of the Gumshoe Award for Best First Novel Winner of the Barry Award for Best First Novel Winner of the Macavity Award for Best First Novel There's nothing unusual about the sound of a gunshot in Twelve Sleep. 'Box remains square on target throughout this nearly word-perfect debut… Joe Pickett is a Gary Cooper for our time.Independent Bookshop Editions and Autographed Books 'A debut of riveting tensions.' Publishers Weekly

Open Season is the winner of the highly coveted Anthony, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel.

How did the dead man get to his house? What was in the empty cooler by his side? And why do his colleagues want to sweep the case under the rug? Battling grudge-holding neighbours, corrupt officials and out-of-town activists, Joe begins to unravel a mystery that threatens the life and the family he loves. So when the source of the shots - a well-known poacher - gets off scott-free after a humiliating confrontation, the locals are delighted.Īnd then the poacher turns up dead in the Picketts' backyard.Ĭharged with investigating the first murder he's ever encountered, Joe soon finds himself swamped with questions. But when Joe Pickett hears two sharp cracks ring out months before hunting season, it's his job to investigate.Īs game warden in Twelve Sleep, father-of-two Joe is not only badly paid and poorly housed, but deeply unpopular. Here in remotest Wyoming, where elk roam the pine forests and cougars prowl the mountains, everyone owns a gun. There's nothing unusual about the sound of a gunshot in Twelve Sleep. Open Season introduces Box's Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett. Box, author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky.

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