C. J. Box Two Novels in One (Back of Beyond/The Bitterroots)

Two novels in one volume.

In Back of Beyond, Cody Hoyt, although a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his friend Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. As Cody digs deeper into the case, all roads lead to foul play. After years of bad behavior with his department, Cody is in no position to be investigating a homicide, but he will stop at nothing to find Hank's killer.

In The Bitterroots, former sheriff's investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over in private practice. She's her own boss and answers to no one, and that's just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: She wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family. But out by the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana, twisted family loyalty runs as deep as the ties to the land and there's always something more to the story.