Walt Longmire · Book 5

The Dark Horse

by Craig Johnson

Published
1 January 2009
ISBN-13
9781101054154
Type
novel

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Cover of The Dark Horse

About this book

The Dark Horse, the fifth installment of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series, was published in 2009. It continues the series' sense of place -- the sparsely populated jurisdiction of Absaroka County bordering the Cheyenne reservation -- alongside a case for the wry, widowed sheriff to work.

Its place in Walt Longmire

The Dark Horse is book 5 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Another Man's Moccasins. It is followed by Junkyard Dogs. 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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