In Plain Sight (A Joe Pickett Novel Book 6)

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Last update: 05-27-2024


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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's hunt for a missing woman forces him to confront his own past in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them must have done her in. But when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly violent pranks, Joe wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapters of his own past. Whoever is after him has a vicious debt to collect, and wants Joe to pay...and pay dearly.

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Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Love the book, Have read several of his books with more to read.
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024
Great book,Love the Novel of Joe Pickett.
larry carrier
4.0 out of 5 stars great series to read
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024
well written interesting story and characters good series
judi drinker collins
5.0 out of 5 stars They get better
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024
I am enjoying the on going stories of Joe Pickett and family. The scenery descriptions just get better. Mystery is believable
ann strouhal From: Ann Strouhal/ Tx
5.0 out of 5 stars In Plain Sight : My first trip down a rough river; what a ride!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2014
I have been devouring C.J. Box's "Joe Pickett" novels like crazy! In this particular novel Mr. Box goes for broke in the telling of a story about an old ranching family that established a vast empire consisting of thousands of acres of land in the 1800 hundreds.

The story begins unfolding in the present-day generation of three brothers, heirs of this huge empire of wealth, in a pasture and engaged in a deadly fight with each swinging shovels in an angry, violent, family fight. Nothing new to the local ranchers and citizens of Saddlestring, Wyoming. One brother who is the eldest and also an elected official of the state government, is the most dishonest, greediest and conniving of all. After their mother is reported missing by the family a search for her begins. It seems she has disappeared into thin air.

Joe Pickett is sent by his new director, Randy Pope, who has a strong build-up of animosity towards Joe to investigate into an alleged tip about Hank, one of the brothers, that his home is full of illegal trophies. The trouble for Joe begins instantly with the uncooperative Sheriff Kyle McLanahan and his dept.

A killer comes to Saddlestring to settle old scores which happen to also include Joe and his entire family. He is a man from the past who is ruthless and who instigates himself wherever he can to do his dirty work "in plain sight". He begins by terrorizing Joe's family and also the kidnapping of his two daughters. From here on out this story becomes extremely harrowing when Joe and good friend Nate Romanowski start the search for the girls. It will keep you turning pages and biting fingernails as the two friends commence a journey down a wild river during a terrible flood.

This is one of Mr. Box's best novels. His writing is so vivid that you can almost feel the currents of the river carry you along for the ride. I highly recommend this book, however it is not for the faint-hearted. It's quite graphic in the crime category. But buy the book, it's great.
LynnS77
5.0 out of 5 stars Old Grievances and New Bosses
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
Joe Pickett and his family have an enemy they never even met, but he knows them and he’s out for revenge. To make matters worse Joe has an old nemesis put in charge of being Joe’s supervisor, so absolutely nothing is getting done in Twelve Sleep without a ton of bureaucracy.

Opal Scarlett pushed someone using the public waterway across their land just a little too hard and got tossed into the river and her body hasn’t turned up. The worst part about that is that the remaining Scarlett brothers are at each other’s throats and dividing the town’s loyalties. Unfortunately Sheridan’s best friend at the moment happens to be Julie Scarlett and Sheridan has been wanting to have a sleep over, but without Opal there it just makes Joe nervous.

The new guy in town is working for the Scarlett’s and seemingly playing them off of each other just like Opal once did, and he’s more dangerous than anyone realizes. Where’s Nate when Joe needs him? This is a five star thriller that I couldn’t put down until I was through.
carolrnjd
4.0 out of 5 stars Joe Pickett Amazing as Ever
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2019
This was only number 6, but I found myself tired of Joe being dissed by virtually everyone; it happens in every book so far in the series. Here he was also badly beaten up and his family was repeatedly terrorized. But just as I was thinking that maybe I'd have to stop reading the series, things began to turn around, and THERE was the page-turner I'd come to know and love! Joe Picket is such a good guy, but he's also smart and tenacious and loyal to a fault. The second half of this novel was terrific and there were a few surprises thrown in, too. I was so into it that, when it was finished, I actually read the preview first few chapters of the next in the series that usually follows most of these stories on Kindle. I NEVER do that, as a rule, because I'd rather start the next one when I'm good and ready, but this time I was really into it and needed to see what was going to happen next. Needless to say, #7, Free Fire, is now on my Kindle. That's not to say that the ending of In Plain Sight was a cliffhanger. No, it was not; all loose ends were tied up and the ending was satisfying, as always. C.J. Box is fast becoming one of my favorites!
Richard A Hardel
5.0 out of 5 stars Action Filled With Surprise!
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024
I have loved reading C. J. Box's Joe Pickett series. As you read each book the reader grows with the Pickett family. This particular book is so well written that I could not put the book down. Wow! The action and events surprised me to the last page. I look forward to the next adventure.
Magzsmom
5.0 out of 5 stars Are you kidding me
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2023
I didn’t think this series could get any better. But I was wrong. The book is riveting with so many twists and turns, and the ending is astounding.

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