Walt Longmire · Book 19

The Longmire Defense

by Craig Johnson

Published
1 January 2023
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780593297315
Type
novel

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About this book

The Longmire Defense, the nineteenth installment of the series, was published in 2023 at 368 pages. Nearly two decades into the series, Walt was still the same wry, weathered sheriff introduced in The Cold Dish, working cases alongside Vic Moretti and Henry Standing Bear in Absaroka County.

Its place in Walt Longmire

The Longmire Defense is book 19 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Hell and Back. It is followed by First Frost. 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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