Blood Trail

Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp-strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting. Is the murder the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer and stop him before someone declares open season on humans."Box...spins a story crammed with shock and suspense."
-SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

"Box knows what readers expect and delivers it with a flourish."
-CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

"An original voice."
-MICHAEL CONNELLY

"A killer opening."
-TAMPA TRIBUNE

"[Box] continues to be red-hot."
-BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)

"Box ratchets up the suspense in this tightly plotted example of his writing genius."
-LIBRARY JOURNALC. J. Box is the author of twenty-five Joe Pickett novels, eight stand-alone novels, and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, the Western Heritage Award for Literature, and two Spur Awards. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He has been executive producer on television series based on his books, including ABC TV’s Big Sky and Joe Pickett on Paramount+.