Walt Longmire · Book 3

Kindness Goes Unpunished

by Craig Johnson

Published
1 January 2007
Pages
288
ISBN-13
9780670031573
Type
novel

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About this book

Kindness Goes Unpunished, the third entry in the series, was published in 2007 at 288 pages. It continues Craig Johnson's slower-burn, character-driven approach -- Walt navigating Wyoming's brutal winters and moral gray areas with dry humor and a lawman's habit of quoting literature between fistfights.

Its place in Walt Longmire

Kindness Goes Unpunished is book 3 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Death Without Company. It is followed by Another Man's Moccasins. 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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