Walt Longmire · Book 7
Hell Is Empty
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN-13
- 9780670022779
- Type
- novel

About this book
Hell Is Empty, the seventh installment of the series, was published in 2011 at 312 pages. By this point the series had built its reputation on Wyoming's brutal winters and moral gray areas rendered with the same care Johnson gives the plotting, closer in spirit to C. J. Box's Joe Pickett novels than a big-city procedural.
Its place in Walt Longmire
Hell Is Empty is book 7 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Junkyard Dogs. It is followed by As the Crow Flies. 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 9780670022779