author Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire series, set in rural Wyoming, as being “a spine-tingling throwback to a tougher era.”The wide-open spaces of fictional Absaroka County offer opportunities to commit a crime, sight unseen, and plenty of ways to conceal the evidence in the often storm-torn high-country desert. Sans local crime lab assistance and reliable cell phone service, Sheriff Longmire relies on his skills at reading the land and reading the people in a tight-lipped community where long-concealed grudges can, and do, lead to murder.She admits, however, to being “slightly alarmed” that this latest installment “is set in Philadelphia.” Fortunately, Johnson’s tale about the sheriff heading off to the City of Brotherly Love to visit his daughter, only to see her brutally attacked (perhaps by her new boyfriend), after which he takes the ensuing investigation “into his own experienced mitts,” is redeemed by a “very busy plot,” prose “laced with wry humor,” and the author’s description of “the uneasy alliances” Longmire establishes in Philly with the flamboyant family of his deputy, Vic Moretti.
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