Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit drama 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 twenty-six.
“Walt Longmire still bears the impenetrable stoicism of the
American West balanced with an irrepressible humanity . . . he is
balanced, like the West itself, by poetry, sensitivity and
culture—a character of tremendous strength and sometimes surprising
violence.” —The Washington Post
“Bestseller Johnson pays homage to Agatha Christie in his cleverly
plotted [The Western Star] . . . And [he] winds up the whodunit
with a solution that Christie could never have imagined.”
—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Craig Johnson and the Walt Longmire Mystery Series
“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
“Johnson's hero only gets better—both at solving cases and at
hooking readers—with age.” —Publishers Weekly
“Like the greatest crime novelists, Johnson is a student of human
nature. Walt Longmire is strong but fallible, a man whose
devil-may-care stoicism masks a heightened sensitivity to the
horrors he's witnessed.” —Los Angeles Times
“Johnson's trademarks [are] great characters, witty banter, serious
sleuthing, and a love of Wyoming bigger than a stack of derelict
cars.” —The Boston Globe
“The characters talk straight from the hip and the Wyoming
landscape is its own kind of eloquence.” —The New York Times
“[Walt Longmire] is an easy man to like. . . . Johnson evokes the
rugged landscape with reverential prose, lending a heady atmosphere
to his story.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Stepping into Walt's world is like slipping on a favorite pair of
slippers, and it's where those slippers lead that provides a
thrill. Johnson pens a series that should become a 'must' read, so
curl up, get comfortable, and enjoy the ride.” —The Denver Post
“Johnson's pacing is tight and his dialogue snaps.” —Entertainment
Weekly
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