Walt Longmire · Book 11

Dry Bones

by Craig Johnson

Published
1 January 2015
Pages
366
ISBN-13
9780143108184
Type
novel

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About this book

Dry Bones, the eleventh installment of the series, was published in 2015 at 366 pages. A decade into the series, Walt's relationships with Vic Moretti and Henry Standing Bear -- and the slowly-revealed backstory involving his late wife -- had continued building book to book, as Johnson's publication order intends.

Its place in Walt Longmire

Dry Bones is book 11 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Any Other Name. It is followed by An Obvious Fact. 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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