Hell Is Empty

by Craig Johnson

Ebook, 2011

Library's rating

½

Library's review

The seventh entry in the Longmire series finds Sheriff Walt Longmire alone on top of a mountain in the teeth of a tremendous blizzard, tracking a gang of escaped prisoners and their hostages. This one delves heavily into the series' exploration of Native American mysticism, as Longmire may or may
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not be accompanied by an Indian guide as he fights the elements and the depraved psychopath mastermind of the escapees. I enjoy this series very much, although I would have preferred to read this particular book in the dog days of August. :-)
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Description

Transporting a confessed murderer only to learn that the man's crime falls under his jurisdiction and that the killer has escaped, Sheriff Walt Longmire taps insights from Indian mysticism and Dante's "Inferno" in a manhunt through the icy Cloud Peak Wilderness Area.

Media reviews

Deft as always, but dearly missed from this stark, wintry tale is grizzled Walt’s much younger lover, his feisty, tormenting, adorable girl of summer.

Awards

Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2013)
Barry Award (Nominee)

Language

Original publication date

2011
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