Treasure State: A Cassie Dewell Novel (Cassie Dewell Novels, 6)
Treasure State: A Cassie Dewell Novel (Cassie Dewell Novels, 6) book cover

Treasure State: A Cassie Dewell Novel (Cassie Dewell Novels, 6)

Hardcover – September 27, 2022

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Price
$15.11
Format
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1250766960
Dimensions
6.5 x 1.15 x 9.6 inches
Weight
1.05 pounds

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Praise for Treasure State “[Box] does a fine job of developing his characters.” ―Associated Press“A complex and compelling double mystery that treats readers to a thrilling read.” ― Durango Herald "A nifty puzzler with an engrossing, briskly unfolding plot and potential consequences all around." ― St. Louis Post Dispatch “Treasure State is an action-packed page turner . . . a highly satisfying conclusion wraps up this rattling good read.” ―New York Journal of Books“Talk about an embarrassment of riches. . . a fast-paced, one-sitting read. The perfect book to crown your summer reading list.” ― Providence Sunday Journal “All this and Montana, too. Talk about treasure." ― Kirkus Reviews “The best [Cassie Dewell novel] yet.” ― Booklist (starred review)“Excellent. . . Box has rarely been better in his plotting. . . The story culminates with one of Box’s most satisfying payoffs.” ― Publishers Weekly (starred review)“[A] fast-paced mystery that pits betrayal, anger, and hate against hope and longing as it examines the lasting effect of a community used and abandoned after making a fortune for the titans of the copper mining industry.” ― Library Journal Praise for C. J. Box “If Box isn’t already on your list, put him there.”― USA Today “Box seems to get better with every book.” ―Associated Press “Box is a master.” ― The Denver Post “[Box has] crafted fascinating characters and put them in riveting, challenging circumstances that test their mettle and threaten their worlds.” ― The Durango Herald “Box is the crime fiction bard of America’s northern plain states.” ― Toronto Star “One of America’s finest mystery authors.” ― The Globe and Mail C. J. Box is the author of more than thirty books, including the Joe Pickett series and the Cassie Dewell series, and a story collection. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, and has been a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box has also worked on a ranch and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. He’s an executive producer of ABC TV’s Big Sky , which is based on his Cody Hoyt/Cassie Dewell novels, as well as executive producer of the Joe Pickett television series for Spectrum Originals. He lives with his wife on their ranch in Wyoming.

Features & Highlights

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  • bestselling author C. J. Box's
  • Treasure State
  • finds Cassie Dewell in Montana on the trail of a con man.
  • Private Investigator Cassie Dewell’s business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who’s disappeared somewhere in the “treasure state”. A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes Cassie to Anaconda, Montana, a quirky former copper mining town that’s the perfect place to reinvent yourself. As the case develops, Cassie begins to wonder if her client is telling her everything.On top of that, Cassie is also working what's easily one of her strangest assignments ever. A poem that promises buried treasure to one lucky adventurer has led to a cutthroat competition and five deaths among treasure-hunters. But Cassie’s client doesn’t want the treasure. Instead, he claims to be the one who hid the gold and wrote the poem. And he’s hired Cassie to try to find him. Between the two cases, Cassie has her hands full.In Montana, a killer view can mean more than just the scenery, and Cassie knows much darker things hide behind the picturesque landscape of Big Sky Country.
  • Treasure State
  • , C. J. Box's highly anticipated follow-up to
  • The Bitterroots
  • , is full of more twists and turns than the switchbacks through the Anaconda Range.

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I will no longer be reading C. J. Box.

I've read all of C. J. Box's books but this will definitely be my last. I found his use of characters to make fun of people wearing masks and ridiculing people who are afraid of getting covid intolerable and I was so angered by this insensitivity that it overshadowed the plot. For the many who've lost loved ones to covid or are suffering from long term effects, his writing is insulting and hurtful. Our country is incredibly divided right now thanks to the likes of Mr. Box and his rhetoric. This is a shame because otherwise he is not a bad writer.
10 people found this helpful
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Taught, Suspenseful and Cassie Dewell is a great Character

If you like CJ Box, you'll like the sixth installment in his Cassie Dewell series.

A shorter book, it nonetheless charges along with great characters, several of them returning. He has also married the Pickett and Dewell stories by having Joe's daughter April show up as an employee of Dewell's PI firm. Look for those story lines to cross and grow in each series.

One thing very positive about this book is the crimes are less revolting. The Lizard King of earlier books in the series was a despicable sex criminal who preyed on youth. That gave a couple of books in the series a "yuck" factor even though they are well written and suspenseful (so much so that my 83 year old mother, a CJ Box fan, gave up on the Dewell series).

Great escapism that tells a tale of a scheme to defraud rich women linked (I won't give any spoilers) and a criminal lead who thinks himself a righter-of-wrongs across the generations. HIs confederate is in it for the money and is as corrupt as can be. It also has a strong subplot derived from the Forrest Fenn treasure mania (having read a book on the Forrest Fenn treasure, I enjoyed this tie in).
6 people found this helpful
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Short, weakest installment in the Hoyt/Dewell 'Highwayman' Series

In this sixth installment of author C.J. Box’s Cody Hoyt/Cassie Dewell series we find Montana based former cop, turned P.I. Cassie Dewell working on two cases. She is hired by a Florida woman who has been robbed of a fortune by a handsome conman to find out if Cassie can succeed where a now missing P.I. she previously hired has failed. In addition, out of the blue Cassie is called by a reclusive author who claims to be behind a multi-million dollar treasure hunt. He wants her to test his anonymity and ensure that his earlier writings won’t be discovered and mined for clues.

The plots are fairly straightforward with a couple of twists thrown in. April Pickett from Saddlestring is now on the payroll as an assistant at Dewell Investigations which will delight fans of the long running Joe Pickett novels. This book is pretty short, clocking in at a lean 274 pages so “Treasure State” is a quick read. Up until now I preferred what is sometimes called “The Highwayman” series (aka Hoyt/Dewell Series) to the earlier Pickett books but this tale is kind of disappointing. Half of the plot is lifted from the real life Forrest Fenn treasure hunt that began in 2010 and required people to discover clues to its whereabouts from a poem. The conman plot is nothing special or particularly intriguing and hardly competes with Cassie tracking down a truck driving serial killer in earlier stories.

Finally, as a few other reviewers have commented for some reason C.J. Box has inexplicably started getting political with his last two books. Box clearly has conservative leanings which are fine, but he has to know that by introducing rants about ‘woke’ whatever, anti-government, anti- vax, and Covid denial among other things he risks alienating a percentage of his readership. I’m hoping he adopts a more politically neutral narrative for his next Pickett book coming out in Feb 2023.
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Devoured in a day

Another brilliant master piece from C.J. Box. Anytime I know a new book is coming out from by Box, its pre-ordered months in advance. He is and always will be an auto buy for me. Whether we get to enjoy a Cassie Dewell or Joe Pickett novel, I know it's going to keep me reading until I've binged the whole book. Treasure State was a fun, action packed book that takes the reader on a wild, action packed journey through Montana in search of liars, secrets, deception, and treasure. I always love seeing how everyone plays a part, and how they are all connected in the end. Cassie is always a badass who I very much enjoy. I also loved how April Pickett was in this story as well, along with Kyle. This book had an excellent plot that will grab any reader's attention, along with great characters. Don't miss out in this one. Box once again knocked it out of the park and 100% delivered.
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Disappointing

I first became a fan of CJ Box because of the Joe Pickett series. I read them all, and anxiously awaited the newest one. Sadly, the author has let his politics ruin a great series. Having a Wyoming game warden fighting Antifa in Seattle was absolutely ridiculous.

I was hoping it was just a phase until I got this latest Cassie Dewell novel. Box seems to focus more on ranting about mask mandates and “liberal elites” than plot development. The style doesn’t even feel the same as his other books. It’s as though he outsourced his last couple of novels to someone else. Do yourself a favor, read his earlier works but skip anything he’s written in the last couple of years. I honestly tried to like this book, but couldn’t.
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C.J. Box weaves another western classic

Every Box novel seems to be another step up. His Cassie Dewell series latest entry, Treasure State, hits the bullseye again. Great read, and at 271 pages a little more concise than normal Box entries. Great read value!
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Right wing propaganda wrapped in an unreadable shell

This story starts with a tired narrative of Montana changing into New York city, which us patently untrue, and gets worse from there. The "mystery" becomes secondary to the in-your-face commentary that progress is bad and that if you don't want to risk your long-term health for $20 per hour with no health insurance or benefits, then you must be lazy or on unemployment. If you want to read a political book, then read one. If you want a well-written, apolitical book, then look elsewhere.
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Another awesome book from CJ Box

I love all his books and this one didn’t disappoint. I’ve read them all. Love, love Joe Picket and can’t wait til the end of February when the next book comes out. I really like the tv series about Joe too. The actor wouldn’t have been my first pick to play Joe, but after the first couple of episodes; I really liked him. CJ Box is a great storyteller. Once I start a book, I can’t put it down,
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CJ Box needs to get a new editor

I love his books, I always have. But for some reason, the Cassie Dewell books are just absolutely fraught with mistakes. Every book the names change. (I.e. Angela to Rachel—he explained that change in Bitterroots, but it was an explanation he needed to give two books earlier.) I mean, that last chapter at the prison? Not only did the names keep changing ((i.e. Terry-Tracy) but he kept replacing the prisoner’s name with the prison guard’s. It read, way too short by the way, as though it had been written and not read over before being sent into publishers. I’ve noticed that with only the Cassie books and never the Joe Pickett’s. It drives me insane. One moment she’s in a truck, the next she’s in a car. At one time the bad guys are listening to a song on the radio, and an hour later when they get to where they’re going, it’s magically on the same song, and the guys are singing to it. Also, Cassie sits down for an interview, says five words, and she checks her phone to see that over an hour has passed. Then she dumps soda in her lap? What a waste of text. Who cares! There was just too much wrong in this book. No flow, no continuity, just Cassie eating still more donuts. It felt self-published almost, and there was no adrenaline, no suspense, just more of the same dirty cops. (Also, did the department not read exactly as it had in the Bitterroots, with bad officers and a tired, mistreated receptionist? Same story there!) This book disappointed me like no other. If you’re going to make us wait years for the book, it had better be edited, read through, and edited again, especially a book that isn’t even
300 pages. I love Joe Pickett, always will, but I have had my fill of Cassie Dewell. I say that every book, but Bitterroots gave me hope, and Treasure State snuffed it right out.
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Bravo!

Great fun and has it all. Story grabs your interest, the characters are good, throw in a sprinkling of humor, a bit of sly satire, and pulse pounding suspense. What more do you need? Enjoyed this immensely, highly recommend.
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