Wait for Signs

by Craig Johnson

Ebook, 2014

Library's rating

½

Library's review

As Craig Johnson explains in the acknowledgments, he wrote the first Longmire short story as a Christmas present to his newsletter subscribers. He intended it to be a one-off, and was startled the following year when people began asking him when "this year's Christmas story" was going to be out.
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Wait for Signs contains 12 stories. Not all of the stories are mysteries; most are just slices of life in Absaroka County, Wyoming. For Longmire fans, they provide a chance to spend some more time with the characters you love, like Walt and Henry Standing Bear. Like the best short-stories-within-a-series, not reading these stories will have no impact on your enjoyment and understanding of the series — nothing happens in these stories that carries over into the novels.
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Description

Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. Western. Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning "Old Indian Trick." This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson's bestselling, award-winning novels and the A&E hit series Longmire. Each Christmas Eve thereafter, fans rejoiced when Johnson sent out a new short story featuring an episode in Walt's life that doesn't appear in the novels; over the years, many have asked why they can't buy the stories in book form. Wait for Signs collects those beloved stories-and one entirely new story, "Petunia, Bandit Queen of the Bighorns"-for the very first time in a single volume, regular trade hardcover. With glimpses of Walt's past from the incident in "Ministerial Aide," when the sheriff is mistaken for a deity, to the hilarious "Messenger," where the majority of the action takes place in a Port-A-Potty, Wait for Signs is a necessary addition to any Longmire fan's shelf and a wonderful way to introduce new readers to the fictional world of Absaroka County, Wyoming.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2014-10-21
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