Walt Longmire · Book 1
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.
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