Below Zero

Below Zero is the ninth installment in highly regarded Joe Pickett series by C.J. Box. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett’s teenage daughter Sheridan receives a mysterious text message from someone claiming to be April, her dead sister. April was killed six years earlier in a Waco-style shoot out gone bad. Still suffering with guilt over her death Pickett will enlist the help of his fugitive friend Nate Romanowski, keep the FBI at bay and receive a crash course in cell-phone-tracking technology to solve this thriller.


Box has done it again with another winning addition to the Pickett series! The writing is a smooth combination of interesting characters and intelligent sleuthing. Box’s environmental theme is global warming and he does a good job in discussing the complex issue. The chase scene through the rugged back roads of the Black Hills is suspenseful and believable. I have read every book in the Pickett series and I just love them. Are they the best mysteries out there, no, however they are well done and entertaining and if you like the out –of-doors setting these will not disappoint. The stories are fact paced with good twists and meaningful conclusions. It will be interesting to see where Box will take the characters next.

The next installment Nowhere to Run is scheduled for release on April 6, 2010, can’t wait.

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