There are 25 books in the Joe Pickett series. The newest book is Battle Mountain which came out in 2025.

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Open Season

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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

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Savage Run

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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett heads for the forests of Twelve Sleep County to investigate a massive explosion that may have killed a colorful environmental activist and uncovers evidence of a deadly conspiracy that challenges his courage, survival skills, and ethics. By the author of Open Season. 30,000 first printing.

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Winterkill

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Award-winning writer C. J. Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.

It's an hour away from darkness with a bitter winter storm raging when Joe Pickett finds himself deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his…

4
Trophy Hunt

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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Shaken by the brutal killing of a wild moose, game warden Joe Pickett becomes increasingly alarmed when a herd of cattle and then two people are murdered by the same perpetrator. By the author of Open Season. 35,000 first printing.

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Out of Range

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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Receiving the news that a good friend and fellow game warden has committed suicide, Joe Pickett is temporarily assigned to the man's district in Jackson, Wyoming, and finds himself rendered a pawn in a struggle between environmental extremists and their wealthy, powerful adversaries, a situation that poses clues about his…

6
In Plain Sight

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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Pursuing suspicions that a wealthy local ranch owner was murdered by one of her own sons, game warden Joe Pickett finds the case and his career threatened by a man who holds Joe responsible for the death of his brother. By the author of Out of Range. 50,000 first printing.

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Free Fire

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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Joe Pickett, recently fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law's ranch when he receives a visit from the governor. Governor Rulon - a devious but down-home politico - has a special request, one Joe knows he can't refuse. For weeks, the headlines have…

8
Blood Trail

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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In the wake of an elk hunter's grisly murder, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is directed by the governor to investigate the relevance of a mysterious poker chip found at the crime scene. By the author of Free Fire.

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Below Zero

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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Shocked by a phone message that Sherry's believed-dead foster daughter may have survived the events of Winterkill, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett becomes increasingly suspicious when subsequent calls are placed from locations where serious crimes have occurred.

10
Nowhere to Run

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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…

11
Cold Wind

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Joe Pickett investigates a murder that hits close to home in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

"I would say that C. J. Box is at the top of his form, but the top just keeps moving ever upward...A nonstop thrill ride not to be missed!"-Bookpage…

12
Force of Nature

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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A Library Journal Best Mystery of 2012

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…

13
Breaking Point

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Butch Roberson was known by all as a local business owner, a hard worker, and a family man. Then he disappeared, leaving two dead bodies in his wake.

Now he's known as a murderer - though Joe Pickett cannot believe someone as gentle as Butch could have the instincts of…

14
Stone Cold

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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Everything about the man is a mystery...

No one knows where he came from, how he made his money or what's drawn him to the isolated Black Hills of North Wyoming. His generosity has won the locals over, but are his motives above suspicion?

After a string of disappearances, Joe…

15
Endangered

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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Blood is always thicker than water.

Joe Pickett has good reason to dislike Dallas Cates. His eighteen-year-old foster daughter, April, has just run off with him.

Then comes even worse news: April has been found barely alive in a ditch along the highway, and the doctors don't know if she'll…

16
Off the Grid

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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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…

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Vicious Circle

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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One man hell-bent on avenging his family, the other dead-set on protecting his... Joe Pickett always knew there'd be a day of reckoning. And now that day has come. Two years ago, his daughter was beaten and dumped by the side of a country road. Joe's determination to avenge her…

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The Disappeared

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No motive, no suspect, no trace.
Who doesn't want her found?

Joe Pickett is 300 miles from home, enduring the worst weather January in Wyoming can throw at you.

He's in the small mountain town of Saratoga, on the trail of a British woman who checked out of the remote…

19
Wolf Pack

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THE HUNT IS ON. The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back. The bad news is that Wyoming's Twelve Sleep County game warden is only days away from the most dangerous predators he's ever faced. Joe's working with Katelyn Hamm, his counterpart in adjacent Shell County, to…

20
Long Range

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"Impressive precision and heart-gripping suspense....Good characters, an extra good story, and great scenes of life and death in the wilderness"--New York Times Book Review

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder--a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance--in the riveting new novel from #1 New York Times…

21
Dark Sky

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must accompany a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip--but soon learns that he himself may be the hunted--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.
 
**Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary novel**…

22
Shadows Reel

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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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…

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Storm Watch

By C. J. Box , C. J. Box ,

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Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret high-tech facility in this gripping new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.

When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Game Warden Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries in his district.…

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Battle Mountain

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Outlaw falconer Nate Romanowski is off the grid and out for revenge in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C. J. Box.

The campaign of destruction that Axel Soledad and Dallas Cates wreaked on Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett left both men in tatters, especially Nate,…