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Cold Wind

Cold Wind

Contemporary LiteratureCrime
Pages
388
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in- law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do --especially when the early signs point to her being 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?

Prose complexity
5/10

Vibe

DarkTense

Genres

Contemporary Literature Crime Mystery

About the author

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C. J. Box

C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for B...

Characters

Joe PickettProtagonist

A Wyoming rancher and former rodeo rider who becomes entangled in the investigation of his mother-in-law's murder.

Missy AldenSupporting

Joe's mother-in-law, arrested for her husband's death; her relationship with Joe is strained and antagonistic throughout the book.

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