Walt Longmire · Book 16
Next to Last Stand
- Published
- 1 January 2020
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780525522546
- Type
- novel

About this book
Next to Last Stand, the sixteenth entry in the series, was published in 2020 at 336 pages. It continues Craig Johnson's slower-burn approach to the mystery genre, where a specific case shares space with Walt's ongoing relationships and Wyoming's high-plains setting.
Its place in Walt Longmire
Next to Last Stand is book 16 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Land of Wolves. It is followed by Daughter of the Morning Star. 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 9780525522546
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781432883973
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780525522553