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The Crossroads

Published
Mar 2026
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Police Procedural Police Procedural
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"Raining here, but I've got a cup of hot tea and a Joe Pickett novel, so who has it better than me?" —Stephen King

Game warden Joe Pickett fights for his life as his daughters try to uncover who shot him and left him for dead in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C. J. Box.


Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.

Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leading to a dangerous family. Each family with a different bone to pick with the local game warden. Marybeth and the new sheriff assume that Joe was ambushed by one of the families, but they have no idea which one since Joe didn't say where he was going or why.

With Joe unconscious and fighting for his life with Marybeth at his side, Sheridan, April, and Lucy split up and investigate each of families to uncover the truth of what happened to their father, before it's too late.

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Book 26
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First Edition Mar 2026 Penguin ISBN 0593851099
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Mar 2026 G.P. Putnam\'s Sons

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Mar 2026 Thorndike Press Large Print ISBN 142053016X
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