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The Cold Dish

A Longmire Mystery

Craig Johnson · 2004

A Wyoming sheriff, his Cheyenne best friend, and a killing that looks a lot like revenge.

Walt Longmire, sheriff of a thinly populated Wyoming county, investigates the killing of a young man who had been convicted of raping a Cheyenne girl and served almost no time, while other names from the case start turning up dead. Johnson’s first novel introduced Henry Standing Bear and the landscape that carries the series, and it became the basis for the television adaptation.

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Anne Hillerman

Novelist and Former Journalist

Henry Standing Bear and the other reoccurring Natives in Johnson's stories give this debut novel extra breadth and depth. Johnson's depiction of the Wyoming landscape rises to the poetic.

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