Walt Longmire · Book 6

Junkyard Dogs

by Craig Johnson

Published
1 January 2010
Pages
306
ISBN-13
9780670021826
Type
novel

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Cover of Junkyard Dogs

About this book

Junkyard Dogs, the sixth Walt Longmire novel, was published in 2010 at 306 pages. It carries forward the series' character-driven formula, with Walt's dry humor and his circle of Vic, Henry Standing Bear and daughter Cady doing as much narrative work as the case itself.

Its place in Walt Longmire

Junkyard Dogs is book 6 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows The Dark Horse. It is followed by Hell Is Empty. 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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