An Obvious Fact

by Craig Johnson

Ebook, 2016

Library's rating

½

Library's review

Walt and his Cheyenne buddy Henry Standing Bear hit the road to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. Henry has a date with a motorcycle race up a hill, and Walt is along for the ride, so to speak. But when Henry's long-ago amour Lola (the tempestuous woman for whom he named his beloved
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Thunderbird) shows up asking Walt to help her find out who caused her son's motorcycle accident, the sheriff from Absaroka County finds himself hip-deep in murder, attempted murder, undercover federal agents, gun-running, neo-Nazis and family secrets.

I enjoyed this entry in the series, although I'm not as much of a fan of the books that are set away from Absaroka County. I miss the passel of vivid secondary characters that Johnson has created there. The consolation here is a hefty dose of Henry and also Vic, who returns from Philadelphia in time to help Walt and Henry run down the bad guys — almost literally.
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Description

Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Western. HTML: In the 12th novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident near Devils Tower involving a young motorcyclist In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming-the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower-to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a military-grade vehicle donated to the tiny local police force by a wealthy entrepreneur, and Lola, the real-life femme fatale and namesake for Henry's '59 Thunderbird (and, by extension, Walt's granddaughter) come into play, it rapidly becomes clear that there is more to get to the bottom of at this year's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally than a bike accident. After all, in the words of Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the Bear won't stop quoting, "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.".… (more)

Awards

High Plains Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2017)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2016
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