The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Paperback)

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LONGMIRE, a new A&E drama series

The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Walt Longmire mystery series

In this outstanding first novel, New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson introduces Sheriff Walt Longmire of Wyoming’s Absaroka County. Johnson draws on his background in law enforcement and his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, and full of memorable characters. Sheriff Walt Longmire knows he’s got trouble when Cody Pritchard is found dead. Two years earlier, Cody and three accomplices had been given suspended sentences for raping a Northern Cheyenne girl. Is someone seeking vengeance? Longmire faces the most volatile and challenging case in his twenty-four years as sheriff and means to see that revenge, a dish that is best served cold, is never served at all.

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About the Author


Craig Johnson is the author of eight novels in the Walt Longmire mystery series, which has garnered popular and critical acclaim. The Cold Dish was a Dilys Award finalist and the French edition won Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/Bibliobs. Death Without Company, the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book of the Year, won France’s Le Prix 813, and Kindness Goes Unpunished, the third in the series, has also been published in France. Another Man’s Moccasins was the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award Winner and the Mountains & Plains Book of the Year, and The Dark Horse, the fifth in the series, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Junkyard Dogs won The Watson Award for a mystery novel with the best sidekick and Hell Is Empty was a New York Times bestseller. All are available from Penguin. The next in the series, As the Crow Flies, will be available in hardcover from Viking in May 2012. Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire novels have now been adapted for television in the series Longmire on A&E. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five.

Praise for The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery…


"We in the West have a major new talent on our hands." —The Denver Post



"A winning piece of work, and a convincing feel to the whole package." —The Washington Post



"Craig Johnson does it right, with style, grace, wildfire pace, and a sense of humor." —Bob Shacochis

Product Details ISBN-10: 0143036424
ISBN-13: 9780143036425
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 03/28/2006
Pages: 400
Language: English