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Walt Longmire has been Sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, for almost a quarter of a century, but when he joins his good friend Henry Standing Bear on a trip to the City of Brotherly Love to see his daughter, Cady, he's in for a shock. Walt hasn't even put his boots up when Cady is viciously attacked and left near death on the steps of the Franklin Institute. He soon discovers that she has unwittingly become involved in a deadly political cover-up. Backed by Henry, Dog, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and the entire Moretti posse of Philadelphia police officers, Walt unpacks his saddlebag of tricks to mete out some Western-style justice.
“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
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- ISBN: 9781429564328
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- ISBN: 9781101202111
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Publisher's Weekly
December 11, 2006
In Johnson's appealing third Walt Longmire mystery (after 2006's
\t\t Death Without Company), the Wyoming sheriff
\t\t is drawn into a messy situation in the City of Brotherly Love when his daughter
\t\t Cady's ex-boyfriend is killed a few days after Longmire accuses him of being
\t\t behind the assault that left Cady, a Philadelphia lawyer, comatose. Longmire's
\t\t deputy, Victoria Moretti, soon arrives on the scene as her family of Philly
\t\t cops tries to decide whether to suspect Longmire of murder or ask his help with
\t\t the investigation. Everyone in the cast appears to be a stereotype of some
\t\t sort—the Italian police clan, the Salvadoran drug dealer, the Irish publican
\t\t and Longmire's eternally wise and mystical Cheyenne friend, Henry Standing
\t\t Bear—but Johnson plays it for the right kind of laughs. When someone
\t\t introduces Henry as Longmire's "Native American sidekick," Longmire ripostes
\t\t that it's the other way around. The quick pace and tangled web of
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Booklist
March 1, 2007
Absaroka County, Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire goes on a rare road trip in this third entry in a consistently entertaining series. The trip has two purposes: visit Walt's daughter, Cady, a lawyer in Philadelphia, and support his best friend, Henry Standing Bear, who is the guest of honor at the opening of an exhibit of Native American photographs. Plans change quickly when Cady, the victim of a vicious attack, hovers near death. After Cady's former boyfriend and the assumed perpetrator of the attack is killed, Walt takes matters into his own hands, with the help of Henry and Victoria Moretti, Walt's deputy, a Philadelphia native who returns home to ride shotgun. There is a built-in problem whenever a mystery author takes his series on the road: without the defining landscape, the characters often seem stripped of their personalities. That's the case here, to some extent, though Johnson uses the fish-out-of-water theme effectively, setting up Walt as a kind of McCloud in the 1970s Dennis Weaver television show. Satisfying as road trips go, but fans will be glad to have Walt back in Wyoming.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)
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