Death Without Company: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries Book 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000SEI1EA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 147 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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J. All rights reserved. Bill OttCopyright © American Library Association. The trail leads in multiple directions, most of which converge on Longmire's mentor, former sheriff Lucian Connally. It all begins with the death of a Basque woman in an assisted-living home, but the circumstances of that death prompt Longmire and his bantering, foulmouthed deputy, Victoria Moretti, to begin nosing around in the victim's past. It's hard to ask for more in a literary mystery. Box in his Joe Pickett series, Johnson uses the landscape of the Wyoming high country to evoke the sense of lives crushing in upon one another, as secrets refuse to stay buried, and old wounds continue to fester. From Booklist *Starred Review* Johnson's second Walt Longmire novel more than fulfills the expectations created by the series deb
Aided by his friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and newcomer Santiago Saizarbitoria, Sheriff Longmire must connect the specter of the past to the present to find the killer among them.From the Trade Paperback edition.. Now Johnson takes us back to the rugged landscape of Absaroka County, Wyoming, for Death Without Company. Parker will love Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Is Empty and As the Crow Flies, who garnered both praise and an enthusiastic readership with his acclaimed debut novel featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire, The Cold Dish, the first in the Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit drama series. When Mari Baroja is found poisoned at the Durant Home for Assisted Living, Sheriff Longmire is drawn into an investigation that reaches fifty years into the mysterious woman’s dramatic Basque past. Walt investigates a death by poison in this gripping novel from the New York Times best
Book number two is every bit as good as the first one! Every once in a while you pick up a book by a new author, not knowing what to expect, and are completely blown away. This happened last year, when I read Craig Johnson's The Cold Dish. Wow! So I was really excited when I saw that his second book, Death Without Company, was out. And frankly, book number two is every bit as good as the first one.Sheriff Longmire of Wyoming is back with his long-time friend, the intriguing Henry Standing Bear, crusty former Sheriff Lucian Connally, and Deputy Vic Moretti,. Craig Johnson Grows on One Craig Johnson grows on one. I was intrigued into reading his first novel, THE COLD DISH, by a review on DorothyL. I wasn't sure what to think of it, for in many ways it turned the rules of mystery writing, if not on their side, at least at a severe angle. Who ever heard of a rural sheriff with a degree in English Literature and who quotes Shakespeare with great regularity? There have been Native American sidekicks before, but rarely one who speaks English with high grammar and never uses a contraction.. Pat Browning said This will blow your hat off. This book has a little something for everyone. It's a crime story, a western and a love story, all connected, all liberally sauced with Indian mysticism, and beautifully written to boot.Throw in Wyoming during a blizzard and you've got so much geography and weather that DEATH WITHOUT COMPANY will blow your hat off.In one scene Sheriff Walt Longmire and his pick-up posse go to the Busy Bee looking for a killer: "The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed she