Walt Longmire · Book 8

As the Crow Flies

Published
1 January 2012
Pages
308
ISBN-13
9780670023516
Type
novel
Cover of As the Crow Flies

About this book

As the Crow Flies, the eighth Walt Longmire novel, was published in 2012 at 308 pages -- the same year the character reached a much wider audience through the Netflix/A&E adaptation Longmire. It continues the series' grounding in Absaroka County's real tensions around Native land and jurisdiction on and off the reservation.

Key facts about As the Crow Flies

Craig Johnson wrote As the Crow Flies, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2012. The book has 308 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780670023516 to find the main one.

As the Crow Flies is book 8 of 30 in the Walt Longmire series. The series has 30 published books. However, the series starts with The Cold Dish (2004). Have Courage: Longmire Stories is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 3 November 2026.

That series sits on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, Have Courage: Longmire Stories is the latest published Craig Johnson book on file, from 3 November 2026.

About Craig Johnson

Craig Johnson is an American novelist best known for the Longmire series, following Walt Longmire, the sheriff of a sparsely populated fictional Wyoming county, as he investigates crimes against the vivid, weathered backdrop of the high plains. See every Craig Johnson book in order.

Its place in Walt Longmire

As the Crow Flies is book 8 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Hell Is Empty. It is followed by A Serpent's Tooth. See the full Walt Longmire reading order.

Walt Longmire is the longtime sheriff of fictional Absaroka County, Wyoming — a wry, weathered widower closer to retirement than he'd like to admit, working a sprawling, sparsely populated jurisdiction that borders the Cheyenne reservation. Craig Johnson builds each novel around a specific case (a murder, a missing person, a decades-old grudge resurfacing) but the real draw is Walt himself: a lawman who reads Steinbeck and quotes literature between fistfights, navigates Wyoming's brutal winters and moral gray…

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