How did the narrator detract from the book?ĭavid Chandler made very little effort to act out the book, with virtually no regional accent, no differentiation between characters. Explain how the state of Wyoming hires a game warden who can't shoot a pistol and is more dangerous with it than without it. It took a tad too long for that to happen. Box have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you? I didn't want a mystery where one of the main detectives ended up being a 7yo. The 7yo girl was the smartest of the bunch, though in my opinion she had much too much screen time. The secondary characters were a bit deeper, though his wife came off as a bitchy whiner. The author created and played him (Joe Pickett) as a not very smart guy, who made some big mistakes. I liked the premise, the location, the game warden character.

What did you like best about Open Season? What did you like least? The closer Joe comes to the truth behind the outfitter murders, the endangered species and InterWest, the closer he comes to losing everything he holds dear. But if word of the existence of this endangered species gets out, it will destroy any chance of InterWest, a multi-national natural gas company, building an oil pipeline that would bring the company billions of dollars across Wyoming, through the mountains and forests of Twelve Sleep. Even after the 'outfitter murders,' as they have been dubbed by the local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joe continues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by the local police.Īs Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon discovers that the outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his woodpile. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die in. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden-especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way-is far from popular.

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