Daughter of the Morning Star

Written by Craig Johnson

Narrated by George Guidall

Everybody thinks the night is scary. … The time of danger for the living is the time of change, from day into night, when the world isn't sure what it is or what it wants to be. …

When Tribal Police Chief Lolo Long’s niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, she calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya “Longbow” Long is the athletic phenom of the Lame Deer Lady
Stars high school basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who had disappeared a year previously, a victim of the plague of missing Native women in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire involved will draw
some public attention to the girl’s plight, a maneuver that also inadvertently places the good sheriff in a one-on-one clash with the deadliest adversary he has ever faced in both this world and the next.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781705023761

Craig Johnson

Craig Johnson es el director principal de ministerios de la Iglesia de Lakewood con Joel Osteen, que supervisa todos los ministerios pastorales y es el fundador de la Fundación Champions y los centros de desarrollo del Club de Campeones para necesidades especiales, con más de 75 centros en todo el mundo. Craig es el coautor de Champions Curriculum, un plan de estudios cristiano de alcance completo para aquellos con necesidades especiales. Es autor de Lead Vertically que inspira a la gente a ofrecerse como voluntario y a construir grandes equipos que perduren y Champion que habla sobre cómo el viaje milagroso de un niño a través del autismo está cambiando el mundo. Craig y su esposa Samantha, tienen tres hijos: Cory, Courtney y Connor.

Reviews for Daughter of the Morning Star

[Linda McGary · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Every time ,4th, i listen to this story I pick-up new nuggets to the plots. I love these books. Thank you, Wyoming

[gary robertson · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Hi to all of Craig Johnson books and found this from to be totally boring and completed it online because I’ll touch a good leader George Guidel

[Catherine · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent as always with this wonderful author, but it seems to be Part I of something that will continue into the next book.

[Linn Vahey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I've read the series from the start, in real time. Having been traveling regularly in the area where the real life young girl was left at the rest area, I initially almost backed out of reading this one - after catching the likeness. I am so glad I didn't! This was absolutely brilliant. I don't have the words to do it justice.

[Patti Altergott · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I tried hard to make it last but could not.

[John Cara · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Johnson tries to shoehorn The missing Indian woman crisis Within the usually semi comic Longmire universe. The results are uneven, schmaltzy, and unsatisfying. That being said the narration is brilliant as ever, and you still look forward to the next installment

[lbswiener · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Daughter of the Morning Star: A Longmire Mystery is a difficult book to follow. It has two stories that are running parallel to each other. One story is about a young woman who disappeared. The other story is about a high school girls' basketball team. A lot of time in the book is spent on the basketball team. The disappearance of the young woman is not really solved which leaves the reader feeling unsettled. The book was awarded three stars in this review because the book just ended.

[lewilliams-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Walt, with the help of Henry Standing Bear and Dog, is trying to find out who is giving notes to a girls basketball star whose sister disappeared a year before. Are the two incidents connected? Walt's investigation takes him to two states and different judicial districts. If that is not enough, there's the Native American spirit that Walt is mystified by. Another good read from Craig Johnson.

[jamespurcell · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Walt plays several roles in this book; private eye, firefighter, and interim coach for a girls basketball team. He, Dog, and the Cheyenne Nation wander between two states and several legal jurisdictions as they seek answers to threats to a basketball star and the disappearance of her younger sister. Walt frequently enccounters spirits and the usual assortment of bad guys while falling off cliffs clambering over roofs and somersaulting through windows. He clearly deserves his place as a "role model" for us seniors especially those of us with canes or walkers. Chased, assaulted, and puzzled by the native spirits, he perseveres and with the assistant of his undersheriff even succeeds in his coaching stint.With such excellent characters and a good storyline, the book sustains this enjoyable series quite well.

[satxreader · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Not impressed. When you write a supernatural mystery/thriller, you aren't required to make it logical. Or provide explanations. Or an ending..."cliffhangers" are just a cheesy attempt to pre-sell the next book while not having to come up with an ending for this one. I am a dyed-in-the-wool rabid Longmire fan, but I would never recommend this one. I gave it an extra half-star just for previous work.

[ethel55_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I was glad I read this right away after a thread in the previous book comes to fruition here. Basketball star Jaya is receiving threatening notes and the tribal police ask Walt to look into it and possibly shake things up a bit. In addition, Jaya's sister Jeannie disappeared one winter night the year before and Walt wonders if there is a connection. He and his faithful friend Henry, who is always helpful with old Indian customs, are quickly embroiled in real and supernatural mysteries. You can see where the next book will lead, there is a lot of discussion about turn of the century Indian boarding schools and one in particular that no one wants to speak about.

[cathyskye · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A year without a new tale from Craig Johnson is a year with no sunshine as far as I'm concerned, so I was glad to hear of his latest book. When I learned that one of the focuses of Daughter of the Morning Star is the horrendous scourge of missing and murdered Native American women, I couldn't wait to read it; I knew that Johnson would have something important to say about that, and he does. What he also does is pay homage to bookstores by having Walt walk into PAPER TALK, talk with the owner, and walk out with just the book he needs to shed some light on his little unofficial investigation. One of the things this investigation of his uncovers is a bit of Native American supernatural folklore, the Éveohtsé-heómėse, the Wandering Without, the description of which makes the hair stand on the back of my neck. It is... "...a collection of lost souls that hunger for the living. The outcasts banished from the tribes over the centuries-- the murderers, the mad, the deranged who were driven off to die in the wilderness." "...like all carnivores, it culls the herd, preying on the sad and lonely, those living in its hunting ground on the outskirts of humanity." Daughter of the Morning Star also touches on something else that I hope is discussed more in the next book, the fact that some of the Indian boarding schools were so tragedy-ridden that they were removed from the history books. Walt's work is not done at the end of this book, so I shall have to wait and see what happens in the next. This latest Longmire mystery has all the touches we've come to expect and to love. New characters like Betty One Moon make appearances, Betty being the type of person that even Dog backs away from, Dog having made the trip with Walt and Henry. We also get to revel in some of Johnson's trademark humor as Walt and Henry try to keep Jaya safe, no matter how much the anger-filled young girl tries to pretend they're not there. Although I did enjoy Daughter of the Morning Star, I have to come clean about something. I know that Craig Johnson has a plan. He knows where he wants to take this series, and I will be with him every step of the way. My confession is this: I do miss the camaraderie of Walt and his crew. Couldn't Walt have a short vacation from his quest where he can spend some quality time with Vic and Henry and Ruby and Cady and all the rest? Then we'll all be refreshed and ready for the next adventure.All in all, Daughter of the Morning Star was enjoyable, but it felt a bit disjointed and that some of the plot threads were loose and not woven completely into the story. But there's always next time, and I'll be ready and waiting with a big smile on my face, for that's what happens when a writer creates a cast that is so filled with life that it feels like Family.

[samsattler · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Daughter of the Morning Star is the seventeenth novel in Craig Johnson’s popular Walt Longmire series. This time around, Walt and his often-deputized best friend Henry Standing Bear work a case that shines the spotlight on the real world reality that Native American women are being murdered at a rate ten times greater than the national average — and that Native women are not strangers to violence of any kind. As Johnson puts it in his introductory “Acknowledgments” section: “…four out of five Native women have experienced societal violence, with half having experienced sexual violence as well. Half of the Native women have been stalked in their lifetime, and they are two times as likely to experience violence and rape than their Anglo counterparts. Heartbreakingly, the majority of these Native women’s murders are by non-Natives on Native-owned land.”“It is said that no tribe is truly defeated until the hearts of their women are on the ground — but what if there are no women at all?” - Lonnie Little Bird, friend of Sheriff Walt LongmireThe story begins when Tribal Police Chief Lolo Long asks Walt and Henry for help after her niece Jaya starts receiving written death threats. Jaya is the star player on her high school basketball team, and on the reservation that makes the teen a high profile superstar. Jaya Long is so good at basketball that she’s earned the nickname “Longbow” in honor of her ability to hit shots from all over the floor. Defiant by nature, Jaya knows that the death threats are no joke because her older sister, also a talented basketball player, disappeared a year earlier and has not been seen since. But Jaya is determined to live life her own way, and that is going to make it difficult for Walt and Henry to protect her while simultaneously trying to figure out what happened to the girl’s sister.Chief Long knows Walt and Henry well; she knows that they get things done and that they don’t always play by the rules in the book. She is hoping that the two can stir things up so much, and so loudly, that the general public won’t be able to ignore what is happening to Native women any longer. Turns out, she is right about that, but it also turns out that Walt catches the attention of a mystical spirit, a soul-catcher of sorts, called the Éveohtsé-heómėse that holds on to the spirits of the dead who are not yet ready to move on to the next plane of existence, whatever that may be. So not only will Walt and Henry face-off against the usual suspects…a small group of racist white supremacists, jealous Natives, rival basketball fans…they will have to deal with a spirit that wants to walk away with their souls.Bottom Line: Daughter of the Morning Star is another fun visit into Sheriff Walt Longmire’s world despite the fact that Walt is once again on the road. When that happens, some of the series side characters either fail to make an appearance at all or only pop into the picture for a moment or two. That’s what happens this time with Walt’s snarky undersheriff, and love interest, Vic Moretti and his daughter, Cady. Vic does manage to make a brief appearance or two on scene, but Cady’s appearances are even more limited.This story is not over because now Walt is as interested in Éveohtsé-heómėse as the spirit is in him, and he’s decided that it’s “impolite” to keep the spirit waiting any longer. I don’t know about you, but my money is on Walt.

[waldhaus1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A definite twist from prior Longmire novels - but still a good story with plenty of opportunities for Longmire to be beaten around, and a little time for mysterious spiritual questions. I found the plot twists unexpected from time to time. The use of basketball as a major element in the story was interesting. The usual characters are there, but there is some aging going on as well.

[sharrona_4 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Surprisingly, not as good as most of the previous books, but with a cliffhanger that makes me look forward to next year’s book.