JUNKYARD DOGS by Craig Johnson - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
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A missing thumb and dead developers are only the beginning for Sheriff Walt Longmire
It's a volatile new economy in Durant, Wyoming, where the owners of a multi-million dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent junk-yard. When a severed thumb is discovered in the yard, conflicts erupt, and Walt Longmire, his trusty companion Dog, life-long friend Henry Standing Bear, and deputies Santiago Saizarbitoria and Victoria Moretti find themselves in a small town that feels more and more like a high plains pressure cooker.
Craig Johnson's award-winning Walt Longmire mysteries continue to find new fans, and Junkyard Dogs is sure to create many more devotees. The sixth book in the series is filled with Johnson's signature blend of wisecracks, Western justice, and page-turning plot twists, as the beloved sheriff finds himself star-deep in the darker aspects of human nature, in a story of love, laughs, death, and derelict automobiles.
Junkyard Dogs by Craig JohnsonReviewed by John
It's hard to
believe that
Junkyard Dogs is the sixth Walt
Longmire mystery. So it goes, "time flies when you are having fun!" Fun
doesn't even come close to the great time Virginia, Mitchell and I had during
breakfast with author
Craig Johnson and his lovely wife Judy. Time
flew by as Craig shared stories about his adventures on the road and abroad.
Jenny Shank has a great
blog write up on his recent visits to
France that you won't want to miss.
Craig has signed books for us for years, but this is the first time we've
had the opportunity to actually spend some time with him. As you may know he
lives in a small town of 25 people about a half an hour from Sheridan, Wyoming.
He is currently on his first tour for Junkyard Dogs.
Yes, the first tour. Craig is a strong supporter of the small
independent bookstore, and as such started his own west coast "motorcycle tour,"
visiting little out of the way towns such as Red Lodge (MT), Winnemucca
(NV), Sisters (OR), Redmond (OR) and the like. So he will be climbing back on
his bike to run the circuit one more time in July. If you find yourself on the
road between Salt Lake and Reno near the 4th of July watch for this cowboy, sans
hat, running down the highway.
I personally love the Walt Longmire series, and have often been blown away
by the strong characters and sharp dialogue. As it turn out Craig has had some
serious training in writing dialogue . . . he holds a Ph.D in playwriting.
Perhaps that explains it.
Junkyard Dogs finds a volatile new
economy in Durant when the owners of a multi-million dollar development of
ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent Stewart junkyard. The notorious
Stewart clan is an adventure unto itself and, when conflicts erupt, Walt, Dog,
life-long friend Henry Standing Bear, and deputies Santiago Saizarbitoria and
Victoria Moretti find themselves in a small town that feels more and more like a
high plains pressure cooker.
As Judy tells the customers in her store in Sheridan, "please read Junkyard Dogs . . . my husband wrote
it."