Any Other Name

by Craig Johnson

Ebook, 2014

Library's rating

½

Library's review

The next in my ongoing read of the Longmire series of Western mysteries. Walt is on the road with mentor, former sheriff and current troublemaker Lucian Connally when he gets himself entangled in a case involving missing young women and possible human trafficking in an adjacent county. The race is
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on to solve the case and still make it to Philadelphia in time for the birth of his first grandchild. I love these characters, and the storyline itself was very interesting, but I deducted a half-star because I found the premise that Walt would essentially be in charge of solving a case in another sheriff's jurisdiction with minimal local involvement is just so improbable. Extra credit for the return of sexy, foul-mouthed undersheriff Vic, though, and a decent amount of page time for Henry Standing Bear.
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Description

"Sheriff Walt Longmire had already rounded up a sizable posse of devoted readers when the A&E television series Longmire sent the Wyoming lawman's popularity skyrocketing. Now, with three consecutive New York Times bestsellers to his name and the second season of Longmire reaching an average of 5.4 million viewers per episode, Craig Johnson is reaching a fan base that is both fiercely loyal and ever growing. In Any Other Name, Walt is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent county. Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of his first grandchild, Walt learns that the by-the-book detective might have suppressed evidence concerning three missing women. Digging deeper, Walt uncovers an incriminating secret so dark that it threatens to claim other lives even before the sheriff can serve justice--Wyoming style"--… (more)

Awards

High Plains Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2015)
Spur Award (Finalist — 2015)

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Original publication date

2014
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