The thirteenth novel in Craig Johnson’s beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix series Longmire Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy Walt accompanied his mentor Lucian to the annual Wyoming Sheriff’s Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back. Armed with his trusty Colt .45 and a paperback of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, the young Walt was ill-prepared for the machinations of twenty-four veteran sheriffs, let alone the cavalcade of curious characters that accompanied them. The photograph-along with an upcoming parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men Walt has encountered in a lifetime of law enforcement-hurtles the sheriff into a head-on collision of past and present, placing him and everyone he cares about squarely on the tracks of runaway revenge.
The Western Star
By craigjohnson
The most recent Longmire story told with verve and action. It splits between the past and present and has a cliff-hanger ending. Craig Johnson writes with authority and Longmire is one of the best characters in modern mystery.
Another great ride by Craig Johnson
One of the best Longmire novels to date. Johnson’s multi-narrative efforts with the series have been fantastic. The twin timelines here both peel this particular mystery onion in an entertaining fashion. It feels like Craig Johnson really had fun with this one, and it shows in the writing. Stick around for the nod to Murder on the Orient Express setup, stay for the way it branches out into a narrative all unto itself.
A little slow moving and convoluted
Love all these Walt longmire books.
All Longmire is great!
Many twists and turns, a little hard to keep track of the developments.
Read one Longmire book and you will be hooked. They are hard to out down once you start reading.
A good story. The TV series has modified the characters, so the books are not a duplicate. Great read.
Loved how he added a real train as the setting for the novel.
Typical of Longmire, it doesn’t let you go until the end.
Read them all!!!! Great author….
An old photograph brings back a memory of Walt Longmire being a deputy & traveling with Sheriff Lucian Connelly on the Western Star. There are so many interesting characters masterly described by the author that you feel you know them. You don’t have to be a fan of Longmire on Netflix to thoroughly enjoy this book!!
Just finished, one of my favorite authors, can’t get enough of him. he tricked me in this one, left it with a cliff hanger, have to hurry to his next book.
I can’t get enough of Walt Longmire.
I just love all Johnson’s books They are better than the TV series.
I love all of Craig Johnson’s books and would happily give them all 5 stars, except this one. Can’t put my finger on it, but this book seemed a little more…contrived, I guess. Still a great read, especially for fans of the series.
Love all of Craig Johnson’s Longmire series! This was one of his best.
This didn’t grab me as much as others in the Longmire series. The juxtapositioning of time mid chapters felt clumsy and at times hard to adjust to. I did not find the ending satisfying, though I did enjoy the trip back in time to Walt’s beginning with Lucien as well as viewing younger Standing Bear and Martha characters.
I reading these out of order as I can find them, so … not optimally, but I still feel this lacked the same aura of the several other books I have read.
Liked very much