The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery

by Johnson, Craig
ISBN: 9780143134879
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Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hell Is Empty and As the Crow Flies, the first in the Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit Netflix original drama series.

Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love this outstanding first novel, in which New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson introduces Sheriff Walt Longmire of Wyoming's Absaroka County. Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. After twenty-five years as sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire's hopes of finishing out his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Two years earlier, Cody has been one of four high school boys given suspended sentences for raping a local Cheyenne girl. Somebody, it would seem, is seeking vengeance, and Longmire might be the only thing standing between the three remaining boys and a Sharps .45-70 rifle.

With lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and a cast of characters both tragic and humorous enough to fill in the vast emptiness of the high plains, Walt Longmire attempts to see that revenge, a dish best served cold, is never served at all.
  • Format: MassMarketPaperback
  • Author: Johnson, Craig
  • ISBN: 9780143134879
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.30 x 1.30
  • Number Of Pages: 448
  • Publication Year: 2019

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  • Better than show

    Sonja L. - 4 years 3 months ago

    I like the show but this is quite a bit better. Longmire is funny and sarcastic. Characters are much better developed.

  • Start this excellent mystery series at the beginning...

    Wendie G. - 4 years 4 months ago

    The first in the series of Walt Longmire Mysteries, THE COLD DISH, was Craig Johnson's debut novel. He had no idea when he wrote it that nine more full-length novels, more than a dozen short stories and a television series would follow, all centered on Walt Longmire, the fifty-something sheriff of the fictional Absaroka County, Wyoming. As the title suggests, someone in the story is exacting revenge -- a dish best served cold, as the saying goes -- on young men involved in the assault of a young Cheyenne girl a decade earlier. One by one, the men end up dead by various means. The few clues left behind seem to point to several possible suspects. It isn't until Walt barely survives a trek through a mountain blizzard that he finally uncovers the surprising truth. The supporting characters also leave indelible impressions, from Henry Standing Bear, a full-blooded Cheyenne Indian and Walt's best friend, to Victoria Moretti, his city-bred, wise-cracking deputy/love interest, to his dog, an enormous hound aptly named Dog. Any of the books in the series are rare finds in our stores, so if one hits your shelves, grab it!

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  • The Cold Dish

    John S. - 5 years 7 months ago

    After watching the series on Netflix, it is interesting reading the book.

  • Worthy of your time.

    CHRISTINE A. - 5 years 11 months ago

    Excellent book in the Walt Longmire series. Great detail with my kind of humor and filled with rich characters.