Summary

I don't know exactly how I came upon the current author I'm reading, C. J. Box, but I sure am glad I did.  I love the outdoors and I love a good murder mystery and his Joe Pickett series is the best of both worlds sort of speak.  He currently has 11 books out and I'm on the 4th of the series. 

The first book of the series is Open Season.  Joe Pickett is first introduced into this edge of your seat thriller with many twists and turns.  Just when you think you have it all figured out on what is going on, you get pulled into another direction.  Besides the murder that takes place in the story, the endangered species issue is well written into the plot of this book. 

The second book in the series is Savage Run.  Exploding cows that also takes out a newlywed couple is only part of the many exciting parts of this murderous twist.  Some of the murders in a shooting spree that crisscrosses across the U.S. include a lawyer, a writer, and a lobbyist, all of which are enviromentalists.  All the people killed have a powerful position. 

The third book in the series is Winterkill.  Due to the events that are happening, a high-ranking forest official is brought in for the investigation of the District Supervisor for the Twelve Sleep National Forest.  Not only was he killed, but he was left stuck to a tree with hunting arrows.  You would think that the death of this man would be the center of the plot, but it isn't.  It all centers around a steak out a piece of land on Battle Mountain.  This definitely is a must read for all murder mystery lovers as well as the rest of the Joe Pickett series.

The fourth book in this series is Trophy Hunt.  By the name of the book and given the fact that the main character is a game warden one would thing this is about the one that is meant to be mounted on the wall.  Well this story line is along a whole different aspect.  We are talking mutilations of animals and humans.  What could be causing this?  Aliens, people, a beast of a bear?  There are many twists and turns on trying to figure out what the cause of the mutilations of a moose and cows with no evidence of preditor or clues on who did it.  When two men are found dead the same way the moose and cattle are killed, a task force is formed, but with Joe goes his own way to find out what is tearing his town apart.