I went to the Tattered Cover Bookstore on Colfax Avenue here in Denver last night to hear C.J. Box (pictured on the left) discuss and sign copies of Long Range, his new Joe Pickett novel. This book is the 20th in the series, and the room was packed to the rafters with Box's fans. In these stories, Joe Pickett is the game warden for the area around Saddlestring and Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, and always seems to be getting into investigations that put him and his friend Nate Romanowski into serious danger. This time an attempt to kill a local judge backfires when instead, the judge's wife is seriously wounded. The governor calls for Pickett to join in the search for the suspect. I enjoyed Box's talk very much, and the book sounds really good. I have already put in a request for it at the Denver Public Library. There are only 99 (out of 240) people ahead of me, and so I expect to get a call that it is ready to pick up any day now. Coincidentally, my friend Wally, who headed up to Red Lodge, Montana (located near Yellowstone) this past weekend to help out a friend who recently had knee surgery, was also planning to stop on the way to visit another old friend in Ten Sleep, Wyoming (the real name of Box's fictional Twelve Sleep). Wally told his friend that he would take him out to dinner at some cozy bistro in Ten Sleep. Surprisingly, his friend told him that there are no cozy bistros in Ten Sleep. Hard to believe, but evidently true.
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