Any Other Name - Walt Longmire

Zusatztext "Bracingly ruthless and unsentimental."— The Washington Post “Top-notch....Johnson's hero only gets better—both at solving cases and at hooking readers—with age.” — Publishers Weekly "Well-crafted...filled with endearing characters and nonstop action." — Library Journal  (starred review)  "Once more! you can count on Longmire...for action both physical and cerebral! a bit of humor and romance! and a mighty good mystery." — Kirkus Reviews “Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire’s eleventh case takes him out of his jurisdiction….Those who have followed the series all along will find no reason to stop now.”— Booklist “[Johnson] has hit a home run....Indeed! this may be [his] best Longmire mystery yet.”— Wyoming Tribune Eagle “ Any Other Name is yet another fast-paced novel filled with Johnson's brand of Wild West humor and quick wit.”— Deseret News “Suspenseful and always entertaining....The 11th Walt Longmire mystery is one of the best yet.”— The Oklahoman Review Informationen zum Autor Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit drama 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-six. Klappentext "It's the scenery-and the big guy standing in front of the scenery-that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries." -The New York Times Book Review A sheriff's mysterious death spurs the tenth Longmire novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Land of Wolves 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 life. With the clock ticking on the birth of his first grandchild, Walt learns that the by-the-book detective might have suppressed evidence concerning three missing women. Digging deeper, Walt uncovers an incriminating secret so dark that it threatens to claim other lives even before the sheriff can serve justice-Wyoming style. Leseprobe ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof.*** Copyright © 2014 by Craig Johnson 1   Joseph Conrad said that if you wanted to know the age of the earth, look upon the sea in a storm; if you want to know the age of the Powder River country just be on the wrong side of a coal train. A guy who worked for the Burlington Northern/Santa Fe once told me that the trains in northern Wyoming are about a hundred and forty cars and a mile and a half long, but it sure seems longer than that when you’re waiting on one. . Lucian Connally, my old boss and the retired sheriff of Absaroka County, reached into his pocket and pulled out his beaded tobacco pouch the Cheyenne elders had given him along with the name Nedon Nes Stigo—He Who Sheds His Leg. “Damn, this is a long one.” He also pulled his briarwood pipe from the inside coat pocket of his light jacket, much too light for the weather, and fingered a small packet of wooden matches along with it. “We used to get calls from the railroad detectives, what a useless bunch, wanting us to come down and identify the hobos that climbed in the hoppers back in Chicago and Milwaukee, and with the slick sides on the railcar walls, they couldn’t get out. . . .” He stuffed a small amount of the tobacco into the bowl of his pipe. “They’d pull those cars into the mines and dump tons of coal onto ’em—imagine their surprise.” “Ho...

About the author

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit drama 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-six.

Product details

• Authors: Craig Johnson
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.04.2015
• EAN: 9780143126973
• ISBN: 978-0-14-312697-3
• No. of pages: 317
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Walt Longmire; A Longmire Mystery; A Longmire Mystery; Walt Longmire; Longmire Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature