Cold Wind

A Joe Pickett Novel

by C. J. Box

Putnam

March 22, 2011

ISBN-10: 0399157352

ISBN-13: 9780399157356

Available in: Hardcover

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Cold Wind
by C. J. Box

When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it’s his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in-law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn’t know what to do — especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin. But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl’s death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up? He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck. Whichever way this goes...it’s not going to be good.



C. J. Box's Bio

Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co-owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife, Laurie. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo.

Box lives outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming with Laurie and his three daughters.

Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden who protects not only endangered species, but unravels the mysteries that threaten his loved ones as well.