Joe Pickett · Book 23

Shadows Reel

Published
1 January 2022
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781803283937
Type
novel
Cover of Shadows Reel

About this book

"Shadows Reel" is book 21 in the Joe Pickett series, published in 2022, and comes in at 384 pages. As with the rest of C. J. Box's series, it's built around a real environmental or Western issue filtered through a tight thriller plot, alongside Joe's family life with Marybeth and his uneasy partnership with the off-the-grid Nate Romanowski.

Key facts about Shadows Reel

C. J. Box wrote Shadows Reel, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2022. The book has 384 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781803283937 to find the main one.

Shadows Reel is book 23 of 28 in the Joe Pickett series. The series has 27 published books, while 1 more has an announced date. However, the series starts with Open Season (2001).

The Crossroads is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 24 February 2026. Meanwhile, The Missing comes next, with an announced date of 23 February 2027.

Additionally, C. J. Box writes Cassie Dewell as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, The Crossroads is the latest published C. J. Box book on file, from 24 February 2026. The next announced C. J. Box release is due on 23 February 2027, so there is still more to come.

About C. J. Box

C. J. Box is an American crime novelist best known for the Joe Pickett series, following a Wyoming game warden whose investigations into wildlife crimes routinely escalate into far larger conspiracies involving corruption, environmental exploitation, and violence in the rural West. See every C. J. Box book in order.

Its place in Joe Pickett

Shadows Reel is book 23 in the Joe Pickett series. It follows Dark Sky. It is followed by Storm Watch. See the full Joe Pickett reading order.

Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden — a job that keeps landing him in the middle of murders, poaching conspiracies, eco-terrorism, corporate land grabs and political corruption across the vast, empty country around fictional Saddlestring. Joe is stubborn, chronically underpaid, allergic to political games, and hopeless at holding his tongue around powerful people, which gets him fired, reassigned and shot at with regularity — but it also makes him the game warden who actually goes after the people everyone else…

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