Bookbot

The Highway QuartetSeries

This thrilling series of mysteries transports readers to the vast and majestic landscapes of the American West. Each installment presents intricate cases that demand sharp intellect and sheer grit. Follow the intertwined journeys of characters as they navigate the complex world of crime and justice, seeking truth amidst rugged beauty. The series expertly blends suspense with the atmospheric backdrop of the wild frontier.

Badlands
Badlands
The Highway
Back of Beyond
Paradise Valley

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1

    Back of Beyond

    4.0(28)Add rating

    A troubled cop seeks to save his son from a killer in the wilderness of Yellowstone. Back of Beyond is a gripping adventure from New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box, and the first book in the series that inspired hit TV show Big Sky.Twilight falls on a cold, wet spring day in the mountains of Montana. A cabin smoulders in the forest. Its charred structure reveals the remains of a single body.Detective Cody Hoyt investigates. A brilliant cop, Cody is also struggling with alcoholism and close to losing his job. It doesn't help that the body in the cabin is his AA sponsor, Hank Winters. It looks like a suicide, but Cody knew Hank better than that.Cody is determined to get justice for his friend. But when the clues lead to a company running wilderness adventures, he realises their latest trip, to Yellowstone National Park, is the very same one his estranged teenage son has signed up for...Cody must trek deep into Yellowstone, America's greatest wilderness, alone, in pursuit of his son - and the truth.Reviews for Back of Beyond'Timeless, gripping. Resembles an Agatha Christie whodunnit but with horses, bears, wolves and hunting rifles.' Sunday Times'A perfect introduction to the novels of C.J. Box.' Booklist'Perceptive... smooth, muscular writing keeps the tension rising.' Financial Times'One of the most suspenseful wilderness thrillers since Deliverance.' Associated Press'Terrifically entertaining.' Kirkus

    Back of Beyond
  2. 2

    The Highway

    • 395 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    4.0(216)Add rating

    There's a killer on the road. A predator who calls himself the Lizard King. And two young women are lost in his hunting grounds... It was Danielle and Gracie's secret. A teenage adventure. A 1,000 mile drive along the spine of the Rocky Mountains to visit Danielle's boyfriend in Montana. Their parents were never to know. But now the girls have simply vanished. The only person who knows they're missing is Danielle's boyfriend. He persuades his father – a disgraced, suspended cop – to search for them. But he too simply disappears...

    The Highway
  3. 3

    Badlands

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.9(10477)Add rating

    Pipelines snake over icy prairie, gas flares light the night sky - the town in the middle-of-nowhere has struck oil and as oil flows out, men and money flow in. With them comes organized crime. Investigator Cassie Dewell is thrust into the middle of a gang war.

    Badlands
  4. 3

    Badlands

    4.1(17)Add rating

    An unprecedented oil strike in Willistown, North Dakota leaves the town a focal point for trouble. Law and order is a dim memory and the sheriff's department just can't build the jails fast enough.

    Badlands
  5. 4

    Paradise Valley

    • 384 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    4.1(8345)Add rating

    Box is not only an exemplary writer of crime novels; he is also a rancher, hunter and guide to the outback. As this might suggest, his work sports a vibrant response to countryside and nature. (Financial Times)

    Paradise Valley