C. J. Box - Open Season

Pros: Smart, fast-paced and full of authentic detail
Cons: Readers might want to move West after they read it.

Mystery writers need a closed room. Not for writing privacy, but to regulate the flow of suspects in and out of a murder scene.

Odd as it sounds, Wyoming is just a big closed room, a boundless place where nobody come or goes without being...

Pros: Great new series debut!
Cons: none

Fine new mystery series continue to erupt out of the American West faster than even Tony Hillerman can write gushing jacket blurbs for them. C.J. Box might never have actually been a game warden like his debuting hero Joe Pickett, but as a former ranch...