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Walt Longmire · Book 7

Hell Is Empty

by Craig Johnson
Published
1 January 2011
Pages
312
ISBN-13
9780670022779
Type
novel
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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.

Key facts about Hell Is Empty

Craig Johnson wrote Hell Is Empty, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2011. The book has 312 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780670022779 to find the main one.

Hell Is Empty is book 7 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

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…

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