The Cold Dish
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780143036425
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson's 400-page debut, opens the Walt Longmire series in 2004, introducing the wry, weathered sheriff of fictional Absaroka County, Wyoming, and the tight circle around him -- deputy Vic Moretti, best friend Henry Standing Bear, and daughter Cady -- who carry as much of the emotional weight as the mysteries do.
Key facts about The Cold Dish
The Cold Dish is a novel by Craig Johnson. Readers have had it since 2004. It runs to 400 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Cold Dish. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780143036425 to find the main one.
The Cold Dish is book 1 of 30 in the Walt Longmire series. The series has 30 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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
The Cold Dish is book 1 in the Walt Longmire series. It is followed by Death Without Company. 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 9780143036425