Open Season

Open Season is the first of 24 novels in a series that follows Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett on a sequence of adventures and mysteries. Open Season introduces key characters who appear throughout the series, particularly the Pickett family consisting of Joe, Marybeth, Sheridan, Lucy, and their foster daughter April. As a game warden, it is Joe’s duty to investigate cases that threaten the Wyoming wilderness, so many of the series’ mysteries relate to themes of environmentalism. After the conclusion of Open Season, Joe Pickett investigates cases of mutilated animals, anti-government conspiracies, deaths of prominent environmentalists, eco-terrorism, and land ownership wars. Throughout the series, Joe’s position as game warden frequently comes under threat, and the Pickett family faces danger and violence at the hands of those who seek revenge against Joe. These challenges test Joe’s principles and resolute morality, but he perseveres through his hardships to do what he believes is right and brings wrongdoers to justice.

The Joe Pickett series joins a long history of detective fiction series that follow a central investigator figure. Edgar Allen Poe’s character C. Auguste Dupin is often considered the first recurring detective in fiction: First introduced in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, he also appears in two other stories, including

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