Badlands

Its place in Cassie Dewell

Badlands is book 3 in the Cassie Dewell series. It follows The Highway. It is followed by Paradise Valley. See the full Cassie Dewell reading order.

C. J. Box's second major series moves away from Joe Pickett's Wyoming game lands into the harder-edged world of law enforcement investigators working Montana and North Dakota. It opens with Back of Beyond, centred on Cody Hoyt, a gifted but self-destructive Bozeman investigator whose best friend dies in a fire Cody is convinced was murder, while his own son goes missing on a wilderness trip led by the chief suspect. Cody's green, methodical partner Cassie Dewell starts the book as a secondary character forced to…