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Joe Pickett investigates a murder that hits close to home in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
“I would say that C. J. Box is at the top of his form, but the top just keeps moving ever upward...A nonstop thrill ride not to be missed!”—Bookpage
When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, his wife, Missy, is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his much-disliked mother-in-law, and he’s not sure what to do—especially since it looks like Missy is guilty as sin.
But then things happen to make Joe wonder Is Earl's death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up? He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck. Whichever way this goes, it’s not going to be good...
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"Cold Wind is something of a novel-length mother-in-law joke. Wyoming Game Warden Joe Picket has a selfish, greedy, conniving mother-in-law who marries for money and trades up to a richer husband every few years. Missy, a petite senior femme fatale, manages to look decades younger than her age. She's added comic interest to Joe's family life in several other books. In this novel she takes center stage as the accused murderer of her fifth husband.
Joe wouldn't mind seeing his mother-in-law in jail, but at the anguished request of his wife, he takes on the job of investigating the murder. The cowboy sheriff arrested Missy without looking at any other suspects. Joe discovers that the murdered mogul made lots of enemies in high finance, and the neighbors hated the vast wind farm he was building.
The action in Cold Wind is supplied mostly by Joe's old friend, outlaw falconer Nate Romanowski. We can always count on Nate for dangerous behavior and amazing sharpshooting. Nate has an obsessive interest in firepower and packs the baddest gun going. C.J. Box always does a good job of contrasting the lawless Nate with law-abiding Joe. Their unlikely friendship allows Box to play pro- and anti-government sentiments against each other in a fairly objective way.
But Box does portray wind power as a somewhat foolish enterprise in this book. If you like the idea of wind power, you may find that somewhat off-putting. I ignore the politics in the Joe Pickett novels - and simply enjoy them as thrillers. Cold Wind may not be perfect, but I enjoyed it."
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Cold Wind A Joe Pickett Novel C J Box Books Reviews
- Another good C J Box book. I've read all of them in the Joe Pickett series up to this one and it doesn't disappoint.
I enjoy the way Pickett will introduce current issues of controversy into his stories. In this case, the wind farms that are despoiling great views the nation over. Without turning into a rant, Pickett does a good job of presenting the "other point of view," (in other words, the non-pc point of view) in issues that are very controversial in the West.
Cold Wind involves wind turbines, murder, and the mother-in-law who makes all others look like a blessing Missy (whatever her current last name is with husband number five). Joe Pickett brings the same less-than-perfect everyman perspective to solving the case. It has a great ending, particularly for fans of the series.
Get it and read it. - I've read every Joe Pickett novel (though not bothered to review them all) and this is one of his best. Unlike Blood Trail where I could figure out the killer almost from the point she was introduced in the story, I was always second-guessing my thoughts as to "who done it?" throughout the book. Unlike Box's occasional flub, like 1000 yard pistol shots, his description of the distorted incentives associated with the wind energy program seem spot on in my experience. We had massive wind farms built in west Texas but only a handful of towers were permitted to turn for years. Then the truth came out that the hundreds of towers had been built without transmission lines to get the power to market, so every CPS rate payer was hit with a massive increase in his bill in order to fund the building of the transmission lines, after the fact. Studies showed it would have been far cheaper and more flexible just to have built a couple natural gas fired plants and been done with it. The point is, such big-government, big incentive programs attract a lot of money and a lot of powerful interests who may well stop at nothing. Box does a great job of weaving that into a first rate murder mystery. Yes, the basic theme of the plot has been done before, but Box does a great job of wrapping his characters around the idea in a way that does not leave you anything you can hang your hat on to say, I know exactly where this is going. He also does a nice job of showing the incompetent and corrupt side of small town politicos not just the Federal guys. We have a corrupt incompetent sheriff (we've seen that before) and a judge more interested in sheep hunting than justice. In fact the FBI comes out looking ok in this novel even though their appearance is a cameo. Nate returns in all his enigmatic glory; what is not to like?
- Cold Wind is something of a novel-length mother-in-law joke. Wyoming Game Warden Joe Picket has a selfish, greedy, conniving mother-in-law who marries for money and trades up to a richer husband every few years. Missy, a petite senior femme fatale, manages to look decades younger than her age. She's added comic interest to Joe's family life in several other books. In this novel she takes center stage as the accused murderer of her fifth husband.
Joe wouldn't mind seeing his mother-in-law in jail, but at the anguished request of his wife, he takes on the job of investigating the murder. The cowboy sheriff arrested Missy without looking at any other suspects. Joe discovers that the murdered mogul made lots of enemies in high finance, and the neighbors hated the vast wind farm he was building.
The action in Cold Wind is supplied mostly by Joe's old friend, outlaw falconer Nate Romanowski. We can always count on Nate for dangerous behavior and amazing sharpshooting. Nate has an obsessive interest in firepower and packs the baddest gun going. C.J. Box always does a good job of contrasting the lawless Nate with law-abiding Joe. Their unlikely friendship allows Box to play pro- and anti-government sentiments against each other in a fairly objective way.
But Box does portray wind power as a somewhat foolish enterprise in this book. If you like the idea of wind power, you may find that somewhat off-putting. I ignore the politics in the Joe Pickett novels - and simply enjoy them as thrillers. Cold Wind may not be perfect, but I enjoyed it.
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