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C. J. Box continues to excite readers with unique mystery thrillers that are full of suspense and action. The twenty-second book in the series featuring Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is full of multiple discoveries happening around Thanksgiving. Joe gets a call about a dead moose that turns out to be much worse. A local fishing guide has been murdered. Meanwhile, Joe’s wife, Marybeth, finds a package at the front door of the library where she is the director. It contains a photo album that has...

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, recovering from a wolverine attack, responds to a rancher's call of a dead moose across a swamp. Not the season for hunting moose but never a season for a dead human and a body is what Joe finds. Joe calls the sheriff who tells Joe to let him handle it, but when did that ever stop Joe.Two other story lines occur in the book: Joe's friend Nate is following the trail of a man who stole his falcons and beat up his wife. Knowing Nate as I do, that man should be reall...

I am a long time fan of the Joe Pickett series. However, this book was not at all up to the standards I expect. This author would be advised to avoid writing about politically charged and sensitive issues or groups, such as BLM and Antifa, in such a demeaning way. Casting Antifa as a bunch of spoiled rich kids without jobs and living with their parents did not move the plot forward or even enhance the story in any way. It was demeaning and distracting from the actual story.

Disappointing plot. Poor effort in excellent series.

I think this book may have been my least favorite so far of the series. While I know that the author often has a political agenda in mind...pipe lines, wind mills for energy, etc. I was not real thrilled to read about antifa and BLM riots. I knew that the book would continue from the last with Nate pursuing Soledad, the man who had stolen his birds and beaten up his wife. I did find the bits about the Nazi photo album at least interesting and was not too surprised at the lengths the family went

Ughhh....disappointed once again. I hope the author returns to what makes the Joe Pickett series great. I'll be in no great hurry to read the next one.

C.J. Box and Michael Connelly (see Connelly's The Dark Hours) are better at channeling law enforcement despondency over the BLM/Antifa/defund the police movements than all the other writers out there put together. That is a brief but achingly vivid part of this book. And then there are the Nazis, and Nate is back, and all three of the Pickett girls are live and in color, and forget Marybeth at your peril, and I'm hoping this isn't the last we've seen of Geronimo Jones. Good one.

As with all C.J. Box stories, Shadows Reel (GP. Putnam 2022), Book 22 of the Joe Pickett series, is clever, fast moving, and about human desires like family, loyalty, and love of animals most of us relate to. Joe Pickett is a game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming. That doesn't sound dangerous, but in the hands of Joe Pickett, who can't turn his back on injustice and is a dog with a bone when faced with a puzzle, mysteries abound that must be solved. In this case, there are two and neither of Joe'...

I love the Joe Pickett series and love CJ Box as an author, but this one didn’t really do it for me. Same characters, same action, but I am not a fan of the Nazi angles in stories. Dude that was 80 years ago. (*** update *** I did see a booktube interview of CJ discussing and telling how similar scenario of the initial Nazi plot actually did occur in Wyoming so I’ll give a little bit.)Someone else’s review mentioned the disconnect of the two parallel stories. Felt more like two half done books t...

Dark and heavy on politics, this - the 22nd in the series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, his family and longtime friend and falconer Nate Romanowski - is a noticeable departure from the usual fare. Don't misunderstand - I enjoyed it immensely, as I did all that came before it. That said, I'm hoping it's not setting a trend for future installments.Theme One: It's almost Thanksgiving, and Joe's wife Marybeth, director of the town library, is looking forward to having their three daught...

Big fan of the Joe Pickett series and have enjoyed past outings. As pointed out by many other reviewers, the 2 plotlines in this book did not relate to each other and both were disappointing. The true historical fact of the Nazi photo album was interesting but the ham-handed attempts to steal it were just silly. I did want Nate to get his Air Force back but that plotline was also cartoonish and hard to believe. Finally the very right leaning politics quite baldly exposed here were not balanced b...

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for this arc.I have been reading and very much enjoying C J Box's Joe Pickett stories for two decades now! Shadows Reel had the expected truck wreck and the new "good ol' boy" sheriff and the usual fast paced action I've come to expect.... But my problem with it was there were 2 fast paced stories going on here that kind of detracted from each other, neither story felt like it was complete. I know Joe and Nate are getting older (so am I), but in this

Wow, after 21 books it amazes me that an author can keep up this great quality of writing. Shadows Reel by C. J. Box is the 22nd book about game warden Joe Pickett. In this book we have two crimes that needs solving, one is the mystery of a burned man in a field and the other is where are Nates airforce? This book has all the ingredients I have come to love about this series. A great storyline, marvelous characters and great setting. I read the book in one sitting, it is that good. Well written

Game warden Joe Pickett’s family faces danger after his wife discovers a sinister photo album with Nazi ties. In the meantime, his good friend Nate Romanowski seeks redemption for the attack on his family and theft of his prized falcons.Reading the next Joe Pickett book every year is like sitting down for a good meal with an old friend. Box’s writing never fails to entertain. I’ve loved witnessing how his family has grown in this long run series. His daughters were little when the series began a...

I love C.J. Box's work. I firmly believe he's constitutionally incapable of writing a bad book. I love almost all of his Joe Pickett novels. I pick up each new entry in the series hoping for the very best — and lately, that "very best" is best defined as "a return to classic form." Sadly, in my opinion, SHADOWS REEL is not that. There's also the loopy, zaftig plot, which feels like it wants to thoughtfully occupy a canvas at least twice as large this novel, giving every twist, development and ch...