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A review by ncrabb
In Plain Sight by C.J. Box
4.0
Opal Scarlett ran her ranch by using one of the most innovative divide-and-conquer strategies you can imagine. She deliberately sets her two sons against one another; the third son is developmentally disabled and essentially not a player in the family drama—or is he?
When Opal Scarlett vanishes, virtually all of Saddle String, Wyoming becomes fascinated with the train wreck as the two sons work at cross purposes of one another to determine who will ultimately inherit the ranch. Naturally, Opal Scarlett said they both inherited it, and neither knew the truth.
J.W. Keeley has come to Saddle String ostensibly to get a job working a ranch. An ex-con, Keeley has assured the Scarlett brothers that his name is Bill Munroe, assuming that neither brother will be smart enough to have connected the name to the Bluegrass legend. His assumptions are correct. But Keeley is in town for quite a different reason. He blames game warden Joe Pickett for the deaths of his sister and daughter. Those two died in a previous book, and no way was it Joe’s fault, but that’s for another previous review.
Keeley wants to make sure Pickett pays the debt Keeley thinks he owes, but he wants to carry out the payments slowly exquisitely and with interest. That means destroying Joe and his family before killing him.
Joe’s troubles are escalated when Wyoming voters elect a Democrat to the governor’s mansion, and that Democrat appoints a fish and game director his is Joe’s nemesis to say the least.
The creep factor runs high in this book as Keeley stocks members of Joe’s family. You’ll get increasingly involved as Joe deals with an ever more tense experience at work as a result of his new petty bureaucrat boss.
Ultimately, it’s up to Joe to figure out who killed Opal Scarlett, especially when so many townspeople claim they’ve seen her on the banks of the river after she allegedly disappeared. He also must save himself from his would-be murderer.
When Opal Scarlett vanishes, virtually all of Saddle String, Wyoming becomes fascinated with the train wreck as the two sons work at cross purposes of one another to determine who will ultimately inherit the ranch. Naturally, Opal Scarlett said they both inherited it, and neither knew the truth.
J.W. Keeley has come to Saddle String ostensibly to get a job working a ranch. An ex-con, Keeley has assured the Scarlett brothers that his name is Bill Munroe, assuming that neither brother will be smart enough to have connected the name to the Bluegrass legend. His assumptions are correct. But Keeley is in town for quite a different reason. He blames game warden Joe Pickett for the deaths of his sister and daughter. Those two died in a previous book, and no way was it Joe’s fault, but that’s for another previous review.
Keeley wants to make sure Pickett pays the debt Keeley thinks he owes, but he wants to carry out the payments slowly exquisitely and with interest. That means destroying Joe and his family before killing him.
Joe’s troubles are escalated when Wyoming voters elect a Democrat to the governor’s mansion, and that Democrat appoints a fish and game director his is Joe’s nemesis to say the least.
The creep factor runs high in this book as Keeley stocks members of Joe’s family. You’ll get increasingly involved as Joe deals with an ever more tense experience at work as a result of his new petty bureaucrat boss.
Ultimately, it’s up to Joe to figure out who killed Opal Scarlett, especially when so many townspeople claim they’ve seen her on the banks of the river after she allegedly disappeared. He also must save himself from his would-be murderer.