The Missing
- Announced for
- 23 February 2027
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780593851135
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Missing" is book 27 in the Joe Pickett series, published in 2027, and is 336 pages long. It's one of the more recently announced entries in the ongoing series. Like its neighbors in the series, it pairs a Wyoming game-warden case with C. J. Box's genuine attention to a real environmental or land-use issue, plus the ongoing family and Nate Romanowski threads that run underneath.
Key facts about The Missing
C. J. Box wrote The Missing, a novel on our list. It has an announced release date of 23 February 2027. Since that date is still ahead, we list it as announced, not as published. The book has 336 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593851135 to find the main one.
The Missing is book 28 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
The Missing is book 28 in the Joe Pickett series. It follows The Crossroads. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593851135