C. J. Box

When wealthy ranch owner Opal Scarlett vanishes, game warden Joe Pickett is sure one of her greedy sons did her in. But when Joe becomes the victim of violent pranks, he wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with a dark chapter from his own life.

""When a high-powered rifle bullet hits living flesh, it makes a distinctive--pow-WHOP--sound that...