The Disappeared

Description

The new State Governor, Colter Allen, needs a favour from Game Warden Joe Pickett. The British consulate is asking questions over in Denver: a rich English woman visiting a high-end guest ranch has gone missing. Joe has a habit of investigating outside the lines of the local law and Allen needs this done quietly. But Joe's inquiries soon uncover not one, but three missing women. At the same time, with his friend Nate Romanowski, he's called to investigate a serious federal crime: the killing of several bald and golden eagles. The more questions Joe asks about each case, the clearer it becomes someone wants him to disappear. And the answers, when they finally come, reveal a violently darker Wyoming that he ever imagined.

C.J. Box is the winner of the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, and the Edgar Award. He is also a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Wyoming.

'Box brings alive the majestic landscape of one of America's least populated states that seems to have more than its fair share of venal politicians, crooked businessmen and hapless if dangerous criminals' Irish Independent. 'This is a classic American rural thriller ... Box is a consummate story teller' Nudge Book. 'Classic Box, with a plot you don't see coming' The Sunday Times Crime Club.