THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE (2023) **** by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2024, 351pp © Craig Johnson, 2023 ISBN: 978-0-593-29733-9 Blurb: Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, where Walt finds himself on a rock outcropping remembering when his father told him about the…
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Book Review: HELL AND BACK (2022) by Craig Johnson
HELL AND BACK (2022) *** by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2023, 336pp © Craig Johnson, 2022 ISBN: 978-0-593-29730-8 Blurb: What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire?…
Book Review – DAUGHTER OF THE MORNING STAR (2021)
DAUGHTER OF THE MORNING STAR (2021) ***½ by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2022, 322pp © Craig Johnson, 2021 ISBN: 978-0-593-29727-8 Blurb: When Lolo Long’s niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire as lethal backup. Jaya “Longshot” Long is the phenom of the…
Book Review – NEXT TO LAST STAND (2020) BY Craig Johnson
NEXT TO LAST STAND (2020) *** by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2020, 320pp © Craig Johnson, 2020 ISBN: 978-0-525-52255-3 Blurb: One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a…
Book Review – LAND OF WOLVES (2019) by Craig Johnson
LAND OF WOLVES (2019) ***½ by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2019, 320pp © Craig Johnson, 2019 ISBN: 978-0-525-52252-2 Blurb: Recovering from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, Sheriff Walt Longmire returns to Absaroka County, Wyoming, to lick his wounds and try once again to maintain justice in a place with grudges that go back…
Book Review – DEPTH OF WINTER (2018) by Craig Johnson
DEPTH OF WINTER (2018) *** by Craig Johnson This hardback edition published by Viking/Penguin, 2018, 292pp © Craig Johnson, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-525-52247-8 Blurb: Welcome to Walt Longmire’s worst nightmare. Winter is creeping closer, but for Sheriff Longmire this one is looking to be harsh in a way to which he is wholly unaccustomed. He has…
Book Review – THE WESTERN STAR (2017) by Craig Johnson
THE WESTERN STAR (2017) ***½ by Craig Johnson This hardback edition published by Penguin, 2017, 295pp © Craig Johnson, 2017 ISBN: 978-0-52-542695-0 Blurb: Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing…
Book Review – DEATH WITHOUT COMPANY (2006) by Craig Johnson
DEATH WITHOUT COMPANY (2006) **** by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2006, 271pp © Craig Johnson, 2006 ISBN: 978-0-14-303838-2 Blurb: When Mari Baroja is found poisoned at the Durant Home for Assisted Living, Sheriff Longmire is drawn into an investigation that reaches fifty years into the mysterious woman’s past. Her connections to Wyoming’s…
Book Review – THE COLD DISH (2005) by Craig Johnson
THE COLD DISH (2005) ***** by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2005, 354pp © Craig Johnson, 2005 ISBN: 978-0-14-303642-5 Blurb: After twenty-five years as sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire’s hopes of finishing out his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Two…
Book Review – AN OBVIOUS FACT (2016) by Craig Johnson
AN OBVIOUS FACT by CRAIG JOHNSON (2016; Penguin; 318pp) *** Blurb: In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming—the nearest town to America’s…