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Title: Winterkill: A Novel by C. J. Box ISBN: 0-399-15045-5 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 08 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Series Continues: Winterkill
Comment: Following up on his debut novel "Open Season" and his second novel "Savage Run" C. J. Box brings Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett back for another intense adventure. Showing the same sense of style and ability to weave a complex entertaining tale as he did in his first two books, this novel builds further on the deep characters involved and culminates in a shocking and disturbing conclusion for fans of this series.
As the novel opens, an early winter storm is bearing down on Battle Mountain in 12 Sheep County, Wyoming. Game Warden Joe Picket is on the mountain on patrol. He has recently seen a truck in the area and knows that at least one hunter is up on the mountain somewhere with him and most likely seeking an elk before the pending storm hits. Warden Pickett earlier had seen an elk herd also in the vicinity so the hunter may be in luck. Then as the sky darkens and the snow begins, Warden Pickett hears gunfire. Gunfire that seems to continue long after one elk should have been hit which means the hunter might actually be a poacher.
Warden Pickett soon finds that the herd he saw earlier has been massacred. Bodies of elk, dead or dying are strewn in a small meadow and the shooter is Lamar Gardiner, head of the United Sates Forest Service for the area. When Gardiner is confronted, he seems not to realize what he has done and is erratic in his responses. Warden Pickett takes him into custody and as they begin the multi hour journey back down the mountain out of the blizzard, Gardiner becomes increasingly deranged in word and actions. Somehow, he manages to escape leaving Warden Picket to go after him in the snowstorm. Eventually, Warden Picket finds Gardiner, dying, and pinned to a tree after being shot through by two arrows.
The loss of his suspect and subsequent murder once again make Joe the laughing stick of the local Sheriff's Department. But in a parallel story line, Warden Pickett has more pressing personal matters to attend to. While he wants to figure out why Gardiner did what he did and who killed him, he faces the loss of his foster daughter, April. April's mother who abandoned her three years ago leaving her alone and taken in by Warden Pickett and his family suddenly returns to Saddlestring. The adoption hasn't been finalized and now her mother is back and wants April back. Even though her mother is part of a group of anti federal extremists camping in the local forest, they are powerless to stop her mother from taking her back because she has a court order. Warden Pickett, a member of law enforcement is torn apart as he watches the system he is sworn to uphold disintegrate in his face because he can't protect April and a killer roams free.
Along with his usual intense writing, complicated characters, strong sense of pacing and another great mystery, the author once again weaves in numerous details of how the public lands are being protected or not as the case may be by those sworn to protect the nation's fragile resource. As always, C. J. Box brings the beauty of the Wyoming Mountains alive for his readers along with his characters. This third book is another in what seems to be building into a great series. As such they should be read in order from the beginning as noted and those that do will get more out of the intense and shocking ending of this novel.
Rating: 5
Summary: Avid Reader
Comment: Outstanding. Superb pacing, plausible plot and a wonderfully flawed protagonist. Establishes this author in the same league as James Lee Burke, which is about the nicest thing I can say.
Rating: 5
Summary: A riveting read
Comment: Once in awhile I run across a book that causes me to forget to do the laundry, to burn the dinner, and to ignore the husband when he is talking. Winterkill is one of those books--I couldn't put it down.
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Title: Savage Run by C. J. Box ISBN: 0425189244 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Open Season by C. J. Box ISBN: 042518546X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Blood Is the Sky: An Alex McKnight Mystery by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312301154 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Trophy Hunt: A Joe Pickett Novel by C. J. Box ISBN: 0399152008 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 24 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Winter of the Wolf Moon by Steve Hamilton ISBN: 0312974752 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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