Walt Longmire · Book 17

Daughter of the Morning Star

by Craig Johnson

Published
1 January 2021
Pages
420
ISBN-13
9781432897284
Type
novel

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Cover of Daughter of the Morning Star

About this book

Daughter of the Morning Star, the seventeenth Walt Longmire novel, was published in 2021 at 420 pages -- one of the longer entries in the series. It continues Johnson's attention to the region's real tensions around Native land, poverty and law enforcement jurisdiction that run through the series.

Its place in Walt Longmire

Daughter of the Morning Star is book 17 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Next to Last Stand. It is followed by Hell and Back. 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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