This is the first C.J. Box book I have read and I am not disappointed at all! I found it so interesting and actually read it in one sitting. I have been wanting to read the Joe Picket series for awhile now and am so glad I finally did. This game warden is one intriguing character. I will continue the series after finishing the Alex Cross series. My quick and simple overall: an awesome start to a series. 👍👍

This is not my normal choice of reading/listening material. I selected this book because there is a TV series out there and because I thought it was something my husband might enjoy listening to on our road trip. Well, the trip was canceled but I was intrigued enough to listen to the book. After a slow start, the plot began to grow on me. I was pretty sure I knew who the baddie was and why but seeing how Joe peeled away the tangle of lies, deceptions and betrayals was what kept me going. Joe is

Are you looking for a new mystery series? Do you like a beautiful western setting with modern day cowboys and outlaws? Do you like your justice served with rawhide, gun oil, and cheap saloon pilsner?Look no further - welcome to the world of Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett whose heart is way bigger than his luck. While going about his daily tasks of checking hunting licenses and counting antelope, he is always getting himself caught up in mysteries and conspiracies that end up with him almost los...

The moral of this story is never get between Joe Pickett and his family, especially if he is holding a loaded shotgun at the time. He is a calm, quiet man until he is not and then watch out!Open Season, like its main character, starts slowly and quietly and then explodes at the end. What an ending too, sadness, violence, hope, regrets but most of all a family which hangs together and supports every one of its members. This is the first book in the series but I have already read a later one whic...

“Looking for a new exciting career? Love the outdoors and working with animals? The state of Wyoming is accepting applications for positions as game wardens. If you’ve spent years obtaining a college degree in fields related to conservation or ecology, you could qualify to be one of our low-paid government agents with a huge territory to cover along with more work than you can possibly do. As a bonus, you’ll get to issue tickets to heavily armed drunken rednecks with no back-up in the middle of

When a man dies in his front yard carrying a cooler, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds himself thrust into a mystery, a mystery that might cost him everything he holds dear...Over the past ten years, I've read hundreds of mysteries and thrillers. There's a stripped down charm to some of them and many of them boil down to the oldest of tales: people being shitheads to each other. When this one popped up on the cheap, I decided to give it a shot. "Wyoming game warden" isn't something that come...

Dear Sheriff Longmire, please don't be mad at me for cheating on you with another Wyoming lawman. He meant nothing to me, I swear!I was set up on a blind date with Joe Pickett, Saddleback Game Warden and family man. We had a good time. I mean, Joe is lawful good, to an extreme. He's a good husband, father, and morally in the right. Plus Wyoming is always a good time for an outdoors-lovin' girl like me. The mystery was solid and I will continue the series, but I think Joe and I will remain "just

This is my first of C.J. Box' Joe Pickett novel. Terrific and extremely well written. I am looking forward to reading the next in this series.

I've been meaning to read Open Season for a long time! Joe Pickett, our main character, is the new game warden In Wyoming. Joe is the kind of guy I like to read about. He's down to earth, down on his luck and rather bumbling on the job. "When Joe screwed up, he did it massively and publicly." He's a family man and wears his heart on his sleeve.Bodies start piling up on the wood pile in Joe's backyard. He starts looking closely at the murders and possibly an endangered species living in that wood...

This debut novel by cj box is absolutely sensational!! The beginning pulled me in immediately, making it nearly irresistible to stop once I started. The set of characters are so different than ones that make up detective procedural novels or even private investigator crime solving thrillers. It's unusual in so many ways but it's still completely absorbing. The individual personalities are well defined and are full of depth. I immediately fell for Joe and his family. Joe is such an endearing and

Published in 2001, Open Seasonis the solid debut of the long running C. J. Box’s Joe Pickett SeriesThe Hook Over and over again I have heard praise for C.J. Box and his Joe Pickett series. I couldn’t ignore all the rave reviews for #16 Off the Grid. I decided it was now or forever hold the page. Besides, Box thinks Michael Connelly is great and as you all know I’m a Connelly fan.The Line ”Joe rarely found a reason to draw his weapon, and even if he did, he doubted he could hit anything with it.”...

3.5★The wilds of Wyoming, controversy between ranchers and conservationists, plus our main guy, game warden Joe Pickett made for an entertaining mystery/thriller and introduced me to book 1 in a series that I will continue reading. Rumor has it that Robert Redford would like to produce a TV series based on the books. Since I can’t get enough of Longmire, bring it on. I loved the unlikely heroine of Sheridan, one of Joe’s two daughters. I would classify this as man-lit which women can appreciate....

What an exciting start to one of my favorite series. The setting is wonderful, a fictitious town in Wyoming .... aaah the great outdoor. After reading a few recent installments, I had no idea that Joe Pickett had such a rough start as a rookie game warden. He's not your typical crime novel hero, a bit slow in some areas, trusting, a straight arrow type of guy, but how many times can a guy loses his gun? Many likable and convincing supporting cast of characters.Paperback edition; 289 pages. The r...

I kept thinking about Dudley-Do-Right as Joe Pickett's character is revealed in this first of a series mystery novel. Just exchange the Mountie uniform for that of a Wyoming Gane Warden. I loved the setting, I wanted to go out and take a hike in the woods, but without the drama of course. It's been a number of reads since I've had one that I hated to set it aside and so eagerly wanted to pick it up each day. I like learning new things and even in this mystery there was something to research, I e...

This is a mystery / thriller but it also (IMHO) a story with a message about the Endangered Species Act. Joe Pickett is the game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming and relatively new on the job. He is a family man and dedicated to his job. He has two daughters, Sheridan and Lucy, and his wife Marybeth is expecting their third child. He is honest and doesn't take bribes or look the other way and because of that he is not always popular. He isn't a sharpshooter and he makes mistakes. Sometimes embarr...

Well, this didn't end up being what I was hoping for.Joe Pickett is a Game Warden in Twelve Sleep River County (Wyoming) where he lives in State housing with his pregnant wife and their two daughters, ages 7 and 3. This was a quick and simple read...and by simple I mean obvious in pretty much every aspect. Joe is such an OBVIOUS boy scout...whose only flaw seems to be a couple of personal habits that cause his wife to fear that other people will think him mentally slow. I don't think he's necess...

After reading Craig Johnson and Tony Hillerman, I’m happy to have discovered another strong western series. Open Season introduces readers to Joe Pickett, Wyoming game warden, husband, and father. When little Sheridan Pickett discovers a monster in her family’s back yard, her father and her family become embroiled in a mystery that is almost more than they can handle. Almost.C. J. Box’s prose is easy and comfortable as a well-worn saddle, and as gripping an experience as any mystery lover could