Indien Crow d'adoption, Raynaud Shade est considéré comme le plus dangereux sociopathe des États-Unis et représente le cauchemar de tout policier. Finalement interpellé, il avoue avoir enterré un cadavre au beau milieu des Bighorn Mountains, dans le Wyoming, et c'est à Walt Longmire que revient la tâche d'escorter Shade, en plein blizzard, jusqu'au corps. Mais le shérif sous-estime peut-être les dangers d'une telle expédition. Car pour tenter de rétablir la justice, il va devoir braver l'enfer glacial des montagnes et tromper la mort avec, pour seul soutien, un vieil exemplaire de La Divine Comédie de Dante.
L'affaire paraissait pourtant simple. Wade Barsad, un homme au passé trouble, a enfermé les chevaux de sa femme Mary dans une grange avant d'y mettre le feu. En retour, celle-ci lui a tiré six balles dans la tête durant son sommeil. Telle est du moins la version officielle. Mais le shérif Walt Longmire, persuadé de l'innocence de Mary, décide de se rendre sur les lieux du crime et débarque incognito à Absalom, petite ville du comté voisin où il n'a pas juridiction. Très vite, il se heurte à l'hostilité de la plupart des habitants et ne tarde pas à découvrir qu'une grande partie de la population avait de bonnes raisons de vouloir la mort de Wade.
The thirteenth Longmire novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Land of Wolves Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy Walt accompanied his mentor Lucian to the annual Wyoming Sheriff's Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back. Armed with his trusty Colt .45 and a paperback of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express , the young Walt was ill-prepared for the machinations of twenty-four veteran sheriffs, let alone the cavalcade of curious characters that accompanied them. The photograph--along with an upcoming parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men Walt has encountered in a lifetime of law enforcement--hurtles the sheriff into a head-on collision of past and present, placing him and everyone he cares about squarely on the tracks of runaway revenge.
Walt investigates a death by poison in this gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dry Bones, the second in the Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series LONGMIRE
Craig Johnson's new novel, Land of Wolves, is forthcoming from Viking
Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. 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, now on Netflix. Now Johnson takes us back to the rugged landscape of Absaroka County, Wyoming, for Death Without Company. 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. 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.
