Longmire Mysteries Series

Cuando encuentran a la anciana Mari Baroja envenenada en la residencia de ancianos de Durant, el sheriff ?Walt Longmire se ve envuelto en una investigación realizada cincuenta años atrás. La conexión entre la víctima y la comunidad vasca de Wyoming, la lucrativa industria de la extracción de metano y la vida privada de Lucian Connally, el antiguo sheriff… todo conduce a una intrincada red de medias verdades y turbias alianzas. Con la ayuda de su amigo, Henry Oso en Pie, su atractiva ayudante, Victoria Moretti, y el nuevo agente, Santiago Saizarbitoria, la tarea del sheriff ?Longmire será conectar los hechos actuales con los que tuvieron lugar en el pasado. Una muerte solitaria es un relato fascinante que ahonda en la atroz perversidad que se esconde donde menos la esperamos, incluso en los lugares más hermosos.

From Craig Johnson, author of the acclaimed novel The Cold Dish (W1071), comes this enthralling Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery that received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. With a distinctive literary flair, Johnson leads us into the wide open space of Absaroka County, Wyoming. When an elderly local woman is found poisoned, Longmire begins an investigation that soon has him ensnared in a deadly spider's web.

Award-winning author Craig Johnson's critically acclaimed debut Western mystery takes listeners to the breathtaking mountains of Wyoming for a tale of cold-blooded vengeance. Two years earlier, four high school boys were given suspended sentences for raping a Cheyenne girl. Now, two of the boys have been killed, and only Sheriff Walt Longmire can keep the other two safe. "Johnson, who lives in Ucross, Wyoming, knows the Western landscape well, and creates stunning and violent scenes of the Rocky Mountains."-Bookmarks

Tras veinticuatro años como sheriff del condado de Absaroka, Wyoming, las esperanzas de Walt Longmire de terminar en paz sus días como agente de la ley se ven frustradas cuando Cody Pritchard aparece muerto cerca de la reserva cheyene junto a una pista muy simbólica: una pluma de águila. Dos años antes, Cody había sido uno de los cuatro chicos de instituto que fueron puestos en libertad provisional tras violar a una chica cheyene. Se diría que alguien va buscando venganza y que Longmire es lo único que separa a los tres chicos restantes de un rifle Sharps del calibre 45-70. Junto a Henry Oso en Pie –su viejo amigo cheyene–, su ayudante –la joven y guapa Victoria Moretti– y un catálogo de personajes que pueblan el paisaje desierto de las altas llanuras, Walt Longmire intentará que la venganza, un plato que se sirve frío, no se lleve a cabo. «En Fría venganza Craig Johnson da vida al vasto paisaje de Wyoming, a su gente y a un personaje extraordinario, el sheriff Walt Longmire.» The New York Times

Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire mysteries are critically acclaimed. Longmire's third outing takes him from Wyoming to Philadelphia to investigate a brutal assault on his daughter Cady. Walt believes her ex-boyfriend is behind the crime, and searches him out. But when he turns up dead, Walt is back to square one. "The quick pace and tangled web of interconnected crimes will keep readers turning pages."-Publishers Weekly

Craig Johnson's mystery stories have earned him an esteemed position in the pantheon of contemporary crime novelists. In this fourth installment, Longmire is called to investigate a dead Vietnamese girl found along the Wyoming highway. "Full of crackling dialogue, this absorbing tale demonstrates that Longmire is still the sheriff in town."-Publishers Weekly

Craig Johnson's rough-and-tumble hero Walt Longmire is quickly becoming a fan-favorite and a critical success. Here Walt has his hands full as greedy land developers employ shady, violent methods to reverse their fortunes in recession-racked Wyoming. "It's the scenery-and the big guy standing in front of the scenery-that keeps us coming back to [these] lean and leathery mysteries."-New York Times Book Review

«Esta tercera entrega de la serie de Craig Johnson lo sitúa de nuevo al mismo nivel que Michael Connelly, Tony Hillerman y James Sallis. Su talento para dibujar personajes y lograr que sus reacciones físicas y emocionales ante la tragedia resulten verosímiles consigue que destaque y se haya hecho un hueco entre los iconos del género policiaco.» I Love a Mystery Walt Longmire lleva como sheriff del condado de Absaroka casi un cuarto de siglo, impartiendo justicia con chispeante sentido del humor. Es hora de tomarse un descanso y decide emprender un viaje con su buen amigo Henry Oso en Pie a Filadelfia, donde le espera una desagradable sorpresa: su hija, Cady, será víctima de un violento ataque que la dejará a las puertas de la muerte. Comienza entonces una investigación que provoca una reacción en cadena de violencia y muerte, y revela oscuros intereses políticos. Acompañado por Henry, por su ayudante Victoria Moretti, por ­Perro y por su familia al completo –un clan de policías de Filadelfia–, el sheriff Longmire tendrá que hacer valer la justicia del Oeste, donde las buenas acciones se acaban pagando. Castigo para los buenos ofrece a los seguidores de Walt Longmire todo el ingenio, la sofisticación y la tenacidad de cowboy a que nos tiene acostumbrados el sheriff de Wyoming. Pero también es una novela sobre la amistad y los vínculos familiares, sobre la necesidad de tener esperanza para afrontar los golpes duros de la vida.

PREMIO SNFC 2015 DE NOVELA POLICIACA EN FRANCIA Absaroka, Wyoming, es el condado menos poblado del estado menos poblado de los Estados Unidos, así que encontrar el cuerpo sin vida de una joven asiática en la carretera del Oso Solitario, cerca de la Ruta 249, es cuando menos desconcertante. Así comienza un nuevo caso para el sheriff Longmire, con un gigantesco indio de turbulento pasado como único sospechoso. Pero las cosas se complican definitivamente cuando una fotografía hallada en el bolso de la víctima conecta este asesinato con un caso al que Longmire se enfrentó como un investigador del Cuerpo de Marines cuarenta años antes en Vietnam. «El cuarto caso de Walt Longmire nos descubre a un Craig Johnson que le ha cogido el tranquillo a la escritura con una obra que sabe a premio.» The Denver Post «Johnson combina de manera impecable los recuerdos de Longmire de una investigación por asesinato en tiempo de guerra con temas actuales, culminando con una conclusión sobrecogedora. No se puede añadir más: otra entrega enteramente satisfactoria de esta excelente saga.» The Rocky Mountain News

The Denver Post hails Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire mystery series as a must-read. Joining the four previous novels-all of which have been Book Sense picks-The Dark Horse puts a unique Wyoming twist on the classic British village mystery. When Longmire meets a woman jailed for her husband's death, he travels outside his usual haunts to discover the truth behind this unusual murder case.

Spur Award winner Craig Johnson has garnered critical acclaim for his Walt Longmire mysteries. In this riveting seventh entry, Wyoming's Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire is pushed beyond his limits. When three hardened convicts escape FBI custody in a mountain blizzard, an armed psychopath leads them up Big Horn Mountain. As Longmire struggles to track their treacherous ascent, he'll need all the help he can get from the tribal spirits of the towering summit.

Craig Johnson logra en esta quinta entrega de la serie del sheriff Longmire una magnífica combinación de policiaco clásico y temas de actualidad, siempre con el inhóspito paisaje de Wyoming como telón de fondo. Wade Barsad, un hombre de pasado oscuro y una pasmosa facilidad para crearse enemigos, prende fuego al establo de los caballos de su esposa, Mary. Ella, como venganza, le descerraja seis tiros a quemarropa. El sheriff Walt Longmire, a quien la versión oficial de lo sucedido no convence en absoluto, está decidido a esclarecer el asunto, incluso si el crimen queda fuera de su jurisdicción. Para ello, haciéndose pasar por un investigador del seguro, visita el rancho de los Barsad, en Absalom. Allí descubrirá que todos en el diminuto pueblo, incluidos el leal vaquero que trabajaba para los propietarios, un ranchero con debilidad por el alcohol y una camarera guatemalteca aficionada a resolver asesinatos, tenían motivos suficientes como para querer ver muerto a Wade...

A holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration for AE' s hit show Longmire " It' s a question of what you have to do, what you have to live with if you don' t." Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas Carol in his office on December 24th when he' s interrupted by the ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar across her forehead and more than a few questions about Walt' s predecessor, Lucian Connally. Walt doesn' t recognize the mystery woman, but she seems to know him and claims to have something she must return to Connally. With his daughter, Cady, and his undersheriff Vic Moretti in Philadelphia for the holidays, Walt is at loose ends, and despite the woman' s reticence to reveal her identity, he agrees to help her. At the Durant Home for Assisted Living Lucian Connally is several tumblers into his Pappy Van Winkle' s and swears he' s never clapped eyes on the woman before. Disappointed, she whispers " Steamboat" and begins a story that takes them all back to Christmas Eve 1988, when three people died in a terrible crash and a young girl had the slimmest chance of survival . . . back to a record- breaking blizzard, to Walt' s first year as sheriff, with a young daughter at home and a wife praying for his safety . . . back to a whiskey-soaked World War II vet ready to fly a decommissioned plane and risk it all to save a life. Back to the Spirit of Steamboat.

Embarking on his eighth adventure, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire doesn't have time for cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is getting married in two weeks, and the wedding locale arrangements have just gone up in smoke signals. Fearing Cady's wrath, Walt and his old friend Henry Standing Bear set out for the Cheyenne Reservation to find a new site for the nuptials. But their expedition ends in horror as they witness a young Crow woman plummeting from Painted Warrior's majestic cliffs. Is it a suicide, or something more sinister? It's not Walt's turf, but he's coerced into the investigation by Lolo Long, the beautiful new tribal police chief.

The success of Craig Johnson' s Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues to grow after AE' s hit show Longmire introduced new fans to the Wyoming sheriff. As the Crow Flies marked the series' highest debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in his ninth Western mystery, Longmire stares down his most dangerous foes yet. It' s homecoming in Absaroka County, but the football and festivities are interrupted when a homeless boy wanders into town. A Mormon " lost boy," Cord Lynear is searching for his missing mother but clues are scarce. Longmire and his companions, feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear, embark on a high plains scavenger hunt in hopes of reuniting mother and son. The trail leads them to an interstate polygamy group that' s presiding over a stockpile of weapons and harboring a vicious vendetta.

In the twelfth novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run near Devils Tower 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, to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and Lola, the real-life femme fatale and namesake for Henry’s ’59 Thunderbird, come into play, it rapidly becomes clear that there is more to this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally than a bike accident.

In Hell and Back, the eighteenth installment of the Longmire series, author Craig Johnson takes the beloved sheriff to the very limits of his sanity to do battle with the most dangerous adversary he's ever faced—himself 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? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies—along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust—something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómese, the Wandering Without, the Stealer of Souls? What if the only way you know who you are is because your name is printed in the leather sweatband of your cowboy hat, and what if it says Walt Longmire—but you don’t remember him?

“Walt, you’re the biggest dinosaur I know.” When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found, surfaces in Sheriff Walt Longmire’s jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum—until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose property the remains were discovered, turns up dead, floating facedown in a turtle pond. With millions of dollars at stake, a number of groups step forward to claim her, including Danny’s family, the tribe, and the federal government. As Wyoming’s acting deputy attorney and a cadre of FBI officers descend on the town, Walt is determined to find out who would benefit from Danny’s death, enlisting old friends Lucian Connally and Omar Rhoades, along with Dog and best friend Henry Standing Bear, to trawl the vast Lone Elk ranch looking for answers to a sixty-five-million-year-old cold case that’s heating up fast.

“He’s like a gun; once you point him and pull the trigger, it’s too late to change your mind.” Sheriff Walt Longmire is sinking into a high-plains winter discontent when his former boss Lucian Connally asks him to take on a special case: A detective is dead, and Lucian wants to know what drove this by-the-book lawman to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of Walt’s first grandchild, he enlists the help of his friend Henry Standing Bear and undersheriff Vic Moretti, and ends up elbow-deep in a cold case involving three missing women. Walt follows the blood trail from a casino in Deadwood to a lodge in the snowy Black Hills of South Dakota to a shady strip club in the neighboring county, uncovering a secret so dark it threatens to claim other lives before the sheriff can serve justice—Wyoming style.

The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Attempting to recover from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, in Land of Wolves Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is neck deep in the investigation of what could or could not be the suicidal hanging of a shepherd. With unsettling connections to a Basque family with a reputation for removing the legs of Absaroka County sheriffs, matters become even more complicated with the appearance of an oversize wolf in the Big Horn Mountains to which Walt finds himself feeling more and more empathetic.

Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a beer when a younger sheriff shows him a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It transports him back to a time when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy Longmire accompanied his boss, Lucian Connolly, to the annual Wyoming sheriff’s junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star. Armed with his trusty Colt .45 and a paperback of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, the young Walt was ill-prepared for the machinations of twenty-four veteran sheriffs, let alone the cavalcade of curious characters that accompanied them. Now the photograph—along with an upcoming parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men Walt has encountered—hurtles the sheriff into a head-on collision of past and present, placing those he loves most squarely on the tracks of runaway revenge.

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.

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 kidnapped Walt's beloved daughter, Cady, to auction her off to his worst enemies, of which there are many. The American government is of limited help and the Mexican one even less. Walt heads into the one-hundred-and-ten degree heat of the Northern Mexican desert alone, one man against an army.

Sheriff Walt Longmire uncovers a cold case that hits very close to home and forces him to put his life on the line with implications that some people would kill to keep buried forever 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 first time he saw a man die. In the late forties, Bill Sutherland was shot but the investigation was stymied because no member of the elk camp—where he was found—was carrying the caliber rifle that killed the state accountant. When Dog discovers the missing weapon, the sheriff of Absaroka County is plunged headfirst into a cold case. His investigation quickly finds ties to a hidden mineral fund that someone is willing to kill to keep secret. The embodiment of the fair-minded detective, Walt is pushed to his ethical boundaries. In his relentless pursuit of the truth, he discovers the rifle in question belonged to none other than Walt’s infamous and uncompromising grandfather, Lloyd Longmire.

In an investigation that spans this world and the next, Sheriff Walt Longmire and his best friend Henry Standing Bear take on a case that pits them against a legend: The Highwayman When Wyoming Highway Patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred from Walt’s jurisdiction to the beautiful and imposing landscape of the Wind River Canyon, she starts receiving mysterious “officer needs assistance” calls—despite the area’s notorious lack of radio communication. More inexplicable still, they seem to be coming from Bobby Womack, a legendary Arapaho patrolman who met a fiery death in the canyon almost a half century ago. With no one else able to hear the calls, Rosey’s supervisor begins to doubt her sanity—until Walt and Henry Standing Bear arrive on the scene, determined to find the troublemaker who is surely playing a prank on their former colleague. But after a few days in the misty, enigmatic canyon, they discover that the mystery goes much deeper than they’d imagined. Will Walt and Henry be able to put things to right, both for Rosey and The Highwayman himself? An otherworldly tale that has even confirmed skeptic Walt contemplating the existence of ghosts, The Highwayman is a wonderfully entertaining story starring the hero of the New York Times bestselling Longmire series.

One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of more than a million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the Seventh Cavalry headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Veterans’ Home of Wyoming, Walt Longmire is called in to try to make sense of a partial painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing one million dollars, both found in Stillwater’s foot locker, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist. Walt is fond of the veterans who sit outside the home and wave at passing cars, and he felt a particular kinship with Charley Lee, making him all the more eager to untangle the mystery of the deceased man’s belongings. As he follows the money— encountering some nefarious characters along the way—Longmire strives to make sure that this investigation doesn’t become his own next to last stand. Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five. George Guidall’s 40-year career in the theatre includes leading roles on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in regional theatres across the country. The recipient of an Obie Award, he has appeared in over 75 productions ranging from Shakespeare to Neil Simon. One of the audiobook industry’s most acclaimed readers, Guidall received Audie Awards for his performances of A Widow for One Year and I Know This Much Is True.

Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning "Old Indian Trick." This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson's bestselling, award-winning novels and the AE hit series Longmire. Each Christmas Eve thereafter, fans rejoiced when Johnson sent out a new short story featuring an episode in Walt's life that doesn't appear in the novels; over the years, many have asked why they can't buy the stories in book form. Wait for Signs collects those beloved stories-and one entirely new story, "Petunia, Bandit Queen of the Bighorns"-for the very first time in a single volume, regular trade hardcover. With glimpses of Walt's past from the incident in "Ministerial Aide," when the sheriff is mistaken for a deity, to the hilarious "Messenger," where the majority of the action takes place in a Port-A-Potty, Wait for Signs is a necessary addition to any Longmire fan's shelf and a wonderful way to introduce new readers to the fictional world of Absaroka County, Wyoming.