Death Without Company - Walt Longmire

Zusatztext Don?t you dare miss it! (Tony Hillerman) Johnson has continued a series that should become a ?must? read. ( The Denver Post ) Johnson delivers great storytelling in an intelligent mystery. ( The Oregonian ) Informationen zum Autor 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! the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for fiction! the Nouvel Observateur Prix du Roman Noir! and the Prix SNCF du Polar. His novella  Spirit of Steamboat  was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross! Wyoming! population twenty-five. 1 “They used ?re, back in the day.” What the old cowboy meant was that folks who were inconsiderate enough to die in the Wyoming winter faced four feet of frozen ground between them and their ?nal resting place. “They used to build a bon?re an’ allow it to burn a couple of hours, melt through the frost, and then dig the grave.” Jules unscrewed the top from a ?ask he had pulled from the breast pocket of his tattered jean jacket and leaned on his worn shovel. It was 28 degrees outside, the jean jacket was all he wore, and he wasn’t shivering; the ?ask probably had something to do with that. “Now we only use the shovels when dirt clods roll into the grave from the backhoe.” The tiny man took a sip from the ?ask and continued the throes of philosophic debate. “The traditional Chinese cof?n is rectangular with three humps, and they won’t bury you wearing red ’cause you’ll turn into a ghost.” I nodded and did my best to stand still in the wind. He took another sip and didn’t offer me any. “The ancient Egyptians had their essential organs removed and put in jars.” I nodded some more. “The Hindus burn the body, a practice I admire, but we cremated my uncle Milo and ended up losing him when his top came loose and he fell through the holes in the rusted ?oorboard of a Willy’s Jeepster on the Upper Powder River Road.” He thought about it, shaking his head at the ignominious end. “That ain’t where I wanna spend eternity.” I nodded again and looked off toward the Big Horn Mountains, where it continued to snow. Somehow bon?res seemed more romantic than construction equipment or Willy’s Jeepsters, for that matter. “The Vikings used to stick ’em a?re on a boat with all their stuff and shove out to sea, but that seems like an awful waste of stuff, not to mention a perfectly good boat.” He paused, but continued. “Vikings considered death to be just another voyage and you never knew what you could end up needing, so you might as well take it all with you.” The jackleg carpenter turned his ferocious blue eyes toward me and took another sip in honor of his ancestors, still not offering me any. I buried my hands in my duty jacket, straining the embroidered star of the Absaroka County Sheriff ’s Of?ce, and dropped my head a little as he kept on talking. I had seen Jules on a professional basis as a lodger at the jail when the nephew of the previous sheriff, and deputy of mine at the time, had picked him up for public intoxication and had beaten him. I had in turn beaten Turk, much to the dismay of my receptionist/dispatcher Ruby, and then turned him over to the highway patrol in hopes that a more structured environment might do him some good. “The Mongols used to ride the body on a horse till it fell off.” I sighed deeply, but Jules didn’t seem to notice. “The Plains Indians probably had it right with the burial scaffolding; if you aren’t up to anything else, you might as well feed the buzzards.” I couldn’t stand it anymore. “Jules?” “Yep?” I turned and looked down at him. “Do you ever shut up?” He tipped his battered cowboy hat back o...

Product details

• Authors: Craig Johnson
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.05.2013
• EAN: 9780143124818
• ISBN: 978-0-14-312481-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Walt Longmire Mysteries; A Longmire Mystery; A Longmire Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense