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Absaroka, Wyoming, es el condado menos poblado del estado menos poblado de los Estados Unidos, así que encontrar el cuerpo sin vida de una joven asiática en la carretera del Oso Solitario, cerca de la Ruta 249, es cuando menos desconcertante. Así comienza un nuevo caso para el sheriff Longmire, con un gigantesco indio de turbulento pasado como único sospechoso.

Craig Johnson logra en esta quinta entrega de la serie del sheriff Longmire una magnífica combinación de policiaco clásico y temas de actualidad, siempre con el inhóspito paisaje de Wyoming como telón de fondo. Wade Barsad, un hombre de pasado oscuro y una pasmosa facilidad para crearse enemigos, prende fuego al establo de los caballos de su esposa, Mary. Ella, como venganza, le descerraja seis tiros a quemarropa. 

Tras veinticuatro años como sheriff del condado de Absaroka, Wyoming, las esperanzas de Walt Longmire de terminar en paz sus días como agente de la ley se ven frustradas cuando Cody Pritchard aparece muerto cerca de la reserva cheyene junto a una pista muy simbólica: una pluma de águila. Dos años antes, Cody había sido uno de los cuatro chicos de instituto que fueron puestos en libertad provisional tras violar a una chica cheyene. 

Cuando encuentran a la anciana Mari Baroja envenenada en la residencia de ancianos de Durant, el sheriff Walt Longmire se ve envuelto en una investigación realizada cincuenta años atrás. La conexión entre la víctima y la comunidad vasca de Wyoming, la lucrativa industria de la extracción de metano y la vida privada de Lucian Connally, el antiguo sheriff... todo conduce a una intrincada red de medias verdades y turbias alianzas. 

Walt Longmire lleva como sheriff del condado de Absaroka casi un cuarto de siglo, impartiendo justicia con chispeante sentido del humor. Es hora de tomarse un descanso y decide emprender un viaje con su buen amigo Henry Oso en Pie a Filadelfia, donde le espera una desagradable sorpresa: su hija, Cady, será víctima de un violento ataque que la dejará a las puertas de la muerte. Comienza entonces una investigación que provoca una reacción en cadena de violencia y muerte, y revela oscuros intereses políticos.

When a tourist dies under mysterious circumstances while visiting charming Evansfield, Vermont's July 4th festivities, the local sheriff believes the man's death is due to a freak accident. But Verity Cade, dairy farmer and amateur sleuth, isn't convinced. Ironically, her astute observations not only change the lawman's mind, but they also result in the arrest of her young farmhand. Things look bad for Jason, whose violent argument with the victim was witnessed by half the town.

As a barrister in 1818 London, William Snopes is a strong advocate who chooses to defend the poorer classes against the powerful. That changes the day a struggling heiress, Lady Madeleine Jameson, arrives at his door. 

When a graffiti artist defaces part of Yosemite National Park, Special Agents Clarence Johnson and Alison Nance expect a straightforward case. But when the suspect falls to her death from Glacier Point—just as another member of her synagogue did years earlier—the investigation takes on a far...

Alexa Glock is teetering on a precipice, the ground threatening to open up beneath her—and it's not just the immediate peril of retrieving a long-lost hiker's skull, given up by a melting and dangerous glacier. She's spending a ski weekend with boyfriend DI Bruce Horne and his two daughters, and she couldn't be more terrified. An entire weekend trying to win over a sullen teenager and a preteen with obvious loyalties to Mom? She's more comfortable almost sliding to her death on an unstable glacier.

When a model is found dead during a life drawing class, the police are confident they have their culprit. The case, they say, is neatly wrapped up. But theatrical agent Ginny Fellows knows better.

On the anniversary of her husband's death, all Verity Cade wants is a quiet night in with her besties. The next morning, she's shocked when the body of one of their group is discovered at the bottom of an abandoned quarry. Although the sheriff rules it a suicide, Verity is sure her friend couldn't have killed herself. Determined to uncover the truth and give the grieving family closure, she scours the victim's journals and discovers a web of lies and secrets.

The author presents a second set of three short stories of fictional private detective Alexander Steele. The predominant setting for most of these stories is the city of Philadelphia and the surrounding area. This collection includes "The Deadly Gamble", "Death on the Delaware", and "The Deadly Trio".

Going back and forth between 1964 and the present day, Craig Johnson brings us a propulsive dual timeline as Walt Longmire stands between the crossfire of good and evil, law and anarchy, and compassion and cruelty at two pivotal stages in his life.

Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, where Walt finds himself on a rock outcropping remembering when his father told him about the first time he saw a man die. In the late forties, Bill Sutherland was shot but the investigation was stymied because no member of the elk camp—where he was found—was carrying the caliber rifle that killed the state accountant.

In the Rim, a forsaken wilderness that abuts a vacuous geographical nightmare that is the Waste, there are no more detectives. Except for Ansel Black. With the help of an evolved artificial intelligence named ANI, Ansel is tasked with solving five anomalous murders, within a world where the reclusive populace has lost its taste for lawlessness.

When Jack, a disillusioned Cambridge graduate stuck in a dead-end job, meets the enigmatic Giselle on a train from Paris and she agrees to accompany him to a wedding, he believes he's found the answer to his problems. But things take a chilling turn when a blizzard traps the guests in a desolate Northumbrian guesthouse. Snowed in with a cast of odd, watchful strangers, suspicion builds as lies begins to unravel.

When Blair McGowan, the mail person with the longest postal route in the country of over three hundred mile a day, goes missing the question becomes—where do you look for her? The Postal Inspector for the State of Wyoming elicits Sheriff Longmire to mount an investigation into her disappearance and Walt does everything but mail it in; posing as a letter-carrier himself, the good sheriff follows her trail and finds himself enveloped in the intrigue of an otherworldly cult.

WALT LONGMIRE AND HENRY STANDING BEAR ARE BACK, AND IN THE TRADITION OF WAIT FOR SIGNS AND THE HIGHWAYMAN, THIS ACTION-PACKED NOVELLA SET IN THE ALASKA TUNDRA PUSHES OUR HEROES TO THEIR LIMITS AS THEY FACE POWERFUL ENEMIES WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET WHAT THEY WANT Tooth and Claw follows Walt...

What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies—along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust—something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómese, the Wandering Without, the Stealer of Souls?  

When Lolo Long’s niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya “Longshot” Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native woman in Indian Country.