TOOTH AND CLAW: Craig Johnson Set to Release New Longmire Mystery in November

This fall, Sheriff Walt Longmire returns for another mystery in Tooth And Claw, a new short 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 become one of the genre’s most beloved characters and was even 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. Most recently, Longmire was seen in Johnson’s 20th novel, First Frost, which came out earlier this year.

Now, Johnson will release a new mystery short story similar in length to Wait for Signs and The Highwayman, one that’ll take readers out of Wyoming and back in time to Alaska, where a younger Walt Longmire finds all kinds of trouble.

Release Date: November 19, 2024

Viking

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In the tradition of Wait for Signs and The Highwayman, Craig Johnson is back with a short novel set in the Alaska tundra where a young Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear face off with powerful enemies who will do anything to get what they want.

Tooth and Claw follows Walt and Henry up to Alaska as they look for work after they both returned from serving in Vietnam. While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, they soon encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it’s not too long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their co-workers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it.

Fans of Longmire will thrill to this pulse-pounding and bone-chilling novel of extreme adventure that adds another indelible chapter to the great story of Walt Longmire.

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 and the Mountain & Plains Independent Booksellers Association’s Reading the West Book Award for fiction. His novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 26.

Fans excited to pre-order Tooth And Claw ahead of its November release can now do so here or anywhere else books are sold.

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