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Penzler Pick, July 2001: Mystery debuts are both exciting and problematic. Exciting, because one may always be about to discover the next Hammett or Chandler (or so the copywriters and publicists would have us believe), and problematic because originality in such a well-grooved genre is becoming more and more at a premium. In advance reviews, Open Season has been pronounced "something special," (_Booklist_), and it lives up to the billing. It is not C.J. Box's skill at plotting (the story of greedy business interests and local corruption is fine, but familiar), but rather the character of hero Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden, that makes this a series kickoff to remember. Like all the best mystery protagonists, Pickett is stubbornly ready to risk everything when his own personal sense of morality is at stake. But Joe is also a guy who sometimes gets things wrong, and this characteristic of messing up adds a dimension of humanity to the book. C.J. Box makes the town of Twelve Sleep, Wyoming (where Joe and his pregnant wife and his daughters have come to live in a tiny house that could be a lot nicer if Joe only had a job that paid better), come alive to the extent that one can

Who reads Open Season (A Joe Pickett Novel Book 1)?

Author

Box, C. J.

Publisher

Robert Hale Ltd

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780425185469

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Fiction, Crime

Rating

4.4 / 5 (19,344 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14