*Read between 11th October and 13th October 2018 ****WARNING: SPOILER….If you have yet to read “The Western Star”, do not read any further.**** Welcome to Walt Longmire’s worst nightmare. In Craig Johnson’s latest mystery, Depth of Winter, an international hit man and the head of one of the most vicious drug cartels in Mexico has…
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“The Western Star” by Craig Johnson. (Walt Longmire #13)
*Read between 7th October and 11th October 2018 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 in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when fresh from…
“An Obvious Fact” by Craig Johnson. (Walt Longmire #12)
*Read between 1st October and 7th October 2018 In this, the twelfth full-length novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, Walt, Henry Standing Bear, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident. In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the…
“The Highwayman” by Craig Johnson. (Walt Longmire #11.5)
*Read between 29th September and 1st October 2018 When Wyoming highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred to the beautiful and imposing landscape of the Wind River Canyon, an area the troopers refer to as no-man’s-land because of the lack of radio communication, she starts receiving “officer needs assistance” calls. The problem? They’re coming from Bobby…
“Any Other Name” by Craig Johnson. (Walt Longmire #10)
*Read between 18th and 23rd September 2018 In Any Other Name, Walt is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent county. Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend to take his own…
“Spirit of Steamboat” by Craig Johnson. (Walt Longmire #09.1)
*Read between 16th and 18th September 2018 Craig Johnson delivers another gripping Longmire story and, yet again, he does not fail to disappoint. “Spirit of Steamboat” is a longer short story, more novella in length. It begins on Christmas Eve in the “current” today of the Longmire chronology. Our Sheriff is sitting at his desk…
“A Serpent’s Tooth” by Craig Johnson. (Walt Longmire #09)
*Read between 13th and 16th September 2018 Art and music, poetry and stories can move and touch you and leave their mark on you. I am often moved by music. It might be a country song or a pop tune on the radio, or it may be a piece of classical music. Whatever the music,…
“Messenger” by Craig Johnson. (Walt Longmire #08.2)
*Read on 12th September 2018 Craig Johnson delights us, yet again, with another visit to Absaroka County, Wyoming to spend time with our favourite sheriff. As a bonus, we get treated to some fine sweary comic quips from Vic along the way. “Messenger” is another Longmire short story. Yet it doesn’t involve a mystery and…
“Christmas in Absaroka County” by Craig Johnson. (Walt Longmire #08.1)
*Read between 11th and 12th September 2018 “Christmas in Absaroka County” is a collection of four short stories each, as the name suggests, with a festive theme. These tales give us glimpses into the man behind the badge that our Sheriff wears. And, if, after the first eight books, we didn’t already like Longmire enough,…
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