Some books just click into a slot in my imagination and light it up. "The Cold Dish" is one of them. From the first chapter of "Cold Dish" I knew that all I wanted to do was settle down and listen to anything Sheriff Longmire had to tell me about anything at all. Now some of that may be becaus...
This is another book my brother (or sister-in-law) insisted that I just had to read. I have no idea why. Maybe Craig Johnson is a friend of their's? His bio doesn't make that seem likely. Whatever, they wouldn't take no for an answer, so to speak, and so I snagged a copy and read it. I guess the boo...
As previously stated, I have no idea how to review books that I like. This is also kinda a half-review for the Longmire TV show. You've been warned... So, to reiterate the title of this review: always read the book. Honestly, if I had know that Longmire involved something besides racism and copiou...
This is by and large what I had to say about the book a couple of years ago -- but I've expanded it a touch. It's hard to believe this is a first novel. I love it when that happens. Johnson is assured in his writing, he knows his characters an...
Two years ago, four boys were put on trial for raping a Cheyenne girl. When one of them winds up dead, sheriff Walt Longmire finds himself in the middle of murder investigation. Plenty of people had cause for wanting Cody Prichard dead but who had the guts to do the deed? And are his three compadres...
Set in Absaroka County, Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire is having to deal with a dead body. He rather be drinking. Before long, another body turns up. Four years before, 4 boys were given a suspended sentence for rape of a mentally handicapped Cheyenne girl. Since two of them have turned up dead in a...
I might have found a new favorite mystery series! So glad I read this.Close your eyes and picture with me, if you will. Small town in Wyoming. Trucks. Pancake breakfasts. Rifles and shotguns. Mountains. Snow. Log cabins. Politics. And a lot of interesting characters. Welcome to Absaroka C...
I knew in the first four pages that I was going to enjoy this book. It begins with Sheriff Walt Longmire of Absaroka County, Wyoming, sitting in his office, watching the geese fly south. Ruby, dispatcher/receptionist, interrupts his musings to tell him he has a call from Bob Barnes, who wants to...
I put this book on my "books that were made into movies" shelf, but it was actually made into the TV show Longmire, which I LOVE. It's currently in its third season and it's on A&E. So, five stars for the show.For The Cold Dish? It definitely wasn't a disappointment, but wasn't quite as good as the ...
I am neither a mystery nor a Western genre reader, but I never say never, and a friend compared Craig Johnson's writing to Cormac McCarthy, mashed up with Alexander McCall Smith-- I was intrigued, and gave it a try. (I imagine) Bleak & realistic portrayals of poor white & Indian life in the west,...
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