C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 25 novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in 2017. The novels have been translated into 27 languages.
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. They have three daughters. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. Box lives in Wyoming.
Books in order of publication:
Joe Pickett novels (25 books)
Open Season (Putnam, July 2001)
Savage Run (Putnam, June 2002)
Winterkill (Putnam, May 2003)
Trophy Hunt (Putnam, June 2004)
Out of Range (Putnam, May 2005)
In Plain Sight (Putnam, May 2006)
Free Fire (Putnam, May 2007)
Blood Trail (Putnam, May 2008)
Below Zero (Putnam, June 2009)
Nowhere to Run (Putnam, April 2010)
Cold Wind (Putnam, March 2011)
Force of Nature (Putnam, March 2012)
Breaking Point (Putnam, March 2013)
Stone Cold (Putnam, March 2014)
Endangered (Putnam, March 2015)
Off the Grid (Putnam, March 2016)
Vicious Circle (Putnam, March 2017)
The Disappeared (Putnam, March 2018)
Wolf Pack (Putnam, March 2019)
Long Range (Putnam, March 2020)
Dark Sky (Putnam, March 2021)
Shadows Reel (Putnam, March 2022)
Storm Watch (Putnam, February 2023) # 23
Three-Inch Teeth (Putnam, February 2024)
Battle Mountain (Putnam, February 2025)
Cody Hoyt / Cassie Dewell novels
Back of Beyond (St. Martin’s Minotaur, August 2011)
The Highway (St. Martin’s Minotaur, July 2013)
Badlands (St. Martin’s Minotaur, July 2015)
Paradise Valley (St. Martin’s Minotaur, July 2017)
The Bitterroots (St. Martin’s Minotaur, August 2019)
Treasure State (St. Martin’s Minotaur, September 2022)
Stand-alone novels
Blue Heaven (St. Martin’s Minotaur, January 2008)
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye (St. Martin’s Minotaur, January 2009)
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Head of Zeus, April 2014)
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