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It starts with the call Marybeth Pickett has always feared.
“It’s Joe’s pickup . . . He’s inside,” a deputy tells her.
“There’s a lot of blood.”
And from there, Box’s 26th Joe Pickett novel is off and running, charging fearlessly ahead as Marybeth and her daughters—Sheridan, April, and Lucy—race to find who led Joe into an ambush, and why.
After several riveting opening chapters, Box does go back in time a few weeks to show the lead-up to the moment we see in the opening, with a gravely injured and unconscious Joe Pickett, shot in his head and shoulder, barely clinging to life inside his bullet-riddled Wyoming Game and Fish department pickup truck. However, make no mistake, this book is primarily told from the perspective of Joe’s family.
Long-time fans of Box’s beloved series, who’ve been following along since Open Season was released in 2001, back when the Pickett girls were in early grade school, will relish the opportunity to see everyone back together again. It’s hard to believe that Joe and Marybeth’s girls are all grown up now, but whereas Box has found different ways to incorporate them here and there in recent books, The Crossroads marks the first time in a long while (maybe ever) that we see them all working together to carry the central part of the story.
