Hell and Back

Its place in Walt Longmire

Hell and Back is book 18 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Daughter of the Morning Star. It is followed by The Longmire Defense. 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…