Cold Wind  opens with a scene which is kind of ghastly, but at the same time it’s LOL-worthy. If you visualize the situation and hear Joe’s words to Marybeth about Missy – you can’t help but laugh.  And it gets that way every so often throughout the book. It’s not as gritty and fem-jeop as the recent priors in this series. 

Cold Wind
C.J. Box
Read by David Chandler 11h 13m
2011 / 
Rating: A+   /  mystery
(#11 in Joe Pickett series)

When I visualized the situation and read/heard Joe’s words to Marybeth about Missy I couldn’t help but laugh.  And it gets that way every so often throughout the book. It’s not as gritty and fem-jeop as Box’s recent priors in this, or the Cassie Dewell series, and I’m glad of that.

Earl Alden, the millionaire 5th husband of Missy who is Marybeth’s mother and so Joe Piekcett’s mother-in-law, is found at the top of a wind-tower tied to a wind-blade. Missy gets arrested. This is the first plot line.  

The second plot line involves Nate Romanowski, Joe’s close but very mysterious friend, who has connections to all manner of people from CIA to underworld crime. Suddenly Nate is apparently being hunted. 

Box gets a bit gritty in some of these Joe Pickett books but so far I’m okay if I leave enough space between books.This one I thoroughly enjoyed and look forward to #12, Force of Nature.
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