Walt Longmire · Book 11

Dry Bones

Published
1 January 2015
Pages
366
ISBN-13
9780143108184
Type
novel
Cover of Dry Bones

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.

Key facts about Dry Bones

Craig Johnson wrote Dry Bones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2015. The book has 366 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780143108184 to find the main one.

Dry Bones is book 11 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

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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