The Western Star
A Longmire Mystery
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4.2 • 20 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Sheriff Walt Longmire's trip down memory lane leads to a mystery in the present in this mystery from New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson
The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+
Walt is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy Walt accompanied his mentor Lucian to the annual Wyoming Sheriff's Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back. Armed with his trusty Colt .45 and a paperback of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, the young Walt was ill-prepared for the machinations of twenty-four veteran sheriffs, let alone the cavalcade of curious characters that accompanied them.
The photograph—along with an upcoming parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men Walt has encountered in a lifetime of law enforcement—hurtles the sheriff into a head-on collision of past and present, placing him and everyone he cares about squarely on the tracks of runaway revenge.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The 13th installment in Craig Johnson’s beloved series sees Sheriff Walt Longmire take a harrowing journey down memory lane in an urgently suspenseful whodunit that pays homage to Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. In 1972, Walt was on the Western Star train when he was mysteriously knocked out, a deputy went missing, and another sheriff was murdered. What does that have to do with his present-day determination to prevent a prisoner from being granted compassionate release? Smartly written, meticulously plotted, and packed with witty asides, this romping, roaming mystery will hook both devoted and new readers.
Customer Reviews
Spoiler alert
Bidarte?! Really?! 85% through the book and you throw Bidarte in?! Why? Was there any plan for this book or did you just run out of ideas? Neither storyline was gripping and both were disapointing. And to make us wait to find out what happens to Cady is just bad form. Actually, I think Cady has suffered enough. Have Walt wake up in the shower and find it was all a bad dream. I know that’s how I feel. You took your readers for granted. Shame on you.