WhoDunnits Book Group: “Open Season” (JCCL)

This month, WhoDunnits will be reading Open Season by C. J. Box.

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe who won’t take bribes or look the other way—is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally.

As Joe digs deeper into the mystery, he soon discovers that the outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his woodpile. But if word of this rare species gets out, it will destroy any chance of InterWest, a multi-national natural gas company, building an oil pipeline through the mountains and forests of Twelve Sleep. The closer Joe comes to the truth behind the outfitter murders, the endangered species, and InterWest, the closer he comes to losing everything he holds dear.

Fans of William Kent Krueger, Paul Doiron, and Craig Johnson will be captivated by this series.

WhoDunnits is a discussion group devoted to mysteries of all kinds and meets the first Tuesday of every month.