The Edgar® Award-winning and NY Occasions bestselling author delivers a thriller about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone.

Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, can be an alcoholic struggling with 8 weeks of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to loss of life in a remote mountain cabin. Initially it looks like the suicide of a guy who’s fallen from the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank had taken pride in about Back of Beyond: A Novel his hard-won sobriety rather than hesitated to drop whatever he was performing to chat Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer go through the picture of his friend’s loss of life, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. After many years of poor behavior along with his section, he’s in no position to be investigating a homicide, but this guy was a friend and Cody’s motivated to discover his killer.

When clues bought at the scene link the murderer for an outfitter leading visitors on a multi-day wilderness horseback trip in to the remote edges of Yellowstone National Park-a pack trip which includes his son Justin-Cody is desperate to can get on their trail and stop the killer prior to the group heads into the wild. Among the vacationers can be fourteen-year-old Gracie Sullivan, an uncomfortable but smart loner who starts to believe that someone within their party is dangerous.

Inside a fatal cat and mouse game, where it becomes apparent the murderer is somehow aware of Cody’s every move, Cody treks in to the wilderness to avoid a killer hell bent on ruining the thing in his life he cares about.

C. J. Box’s Back of Beyond is usually a Kirkus Evaluations Greatest of 2011 Mysteries name.