On May 28th, the beloved sheriff of Abaroska county, Walt Longmire, rides back into action in First Frost, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson.
Longmire, who is massively popular among Book Spy readers, first appeared in Johnson’s 2004 debut novel, The Cold Dish. Since then, he’s gone on to star in nineteen books to date, including last year’s The Longmire Defense, which saw him take on his most challenging case to date. He was also brought to life on the silver screen by actor Robert Taylor, who played Walt in the Longmore television show for six seasons across A&E Network and, later, streaming giant Netflix. Now, he’ll return for his twentieth go-around, and Book Spy readers are getting an early look at the striking cover art and nail-biting plot details.
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Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of characters from Abaroska county tasked with solving a crime even more challenging than the last.
Walt Longmire returns in this twentieth installment of the award-winning and bestselling series that has been a hit on both the page and the screen. Set in the unpsoiled countryside of Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire has to navigate his own increasingly complicated personal life with the ever-changing and often violent underworld that encroaches on what was once referred to as the Old West. This time, he is up against a sinister plot that could hurt the people closest to him and forever change the way he sees his beloved Wyoming.
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 25.
Readers looking to pre-order First Frost, the latest Longmire novel, can now do so here or anywhere else books are sold.
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