Walt Longmire · Book 20
First Frost
- Published
- 28 May 2024
- Pages
- 466
- ISBN-13
- 9780593830673
- Type
- novel

About this book
First Frost, the twentieth Walt Longmire novel, was published in 2024 at 466 pages, arriving just ahead of Return to Sender. Twenty books into the series, Walt remains the same wry, widowed sheriff of Absaroka County first introduced in The Cold Dish, still leaning on Vic Moretti, Henry Standing Bear and daughter Cady to carry the story alongside the case.
Its place in Walt Longmire
First Frost is book 20 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows The Longmire Defense. It is followed by Return to Sender. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593830673
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593830680
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9798890598929