Book 2 in series. Very good story.KIRKUS REVIEWWhat do you do when an old friend lies to you?Mari Baroja is found dead in Room 42 at the Durant Home for Assisted Living. Her demise isn?t too surprising, since the Basque woman was well over 70. Her neighbor in Room 32, however, insists she?s been murdered, and he ought to know. Lucian Connally retired as sheriff of Wyoming?s Absaroka County, and his irascible yammering at his prot?g? Sheriff Walt Longmire (The Cold Dish, 2005) sets in motion an investigation that will peel away years of lies, reveal spirited dreams translated from the Crow, Cheyenne and Basque tongues and focus on the former Four Brothers Ranch¥now mining methane gas for a million dollars a week. Soon Walt will link Mari to Charlie Nurburn, an abusive drunk thought to have died ages ago in Vista Verde, N.M. Why are the folks who duly mourned (or failed to mourn) him now targeted for death themselves? With some timely help from his foul-mouthed deputy Vic, Cheyenne barman Henry Standing Bear and new recruit Santiago Saizarbitoria, Walt finally unravels the tragic love story of Mari and Lucien and the violent ruckus her last will and testament has unleashed.Pile on thermal underwear, fire up the four-wheel drive and head for Durant. Walt and his idiosyncratic crew are terrific companyÂ¥droll, sassy and surprisingly tenderhearted.

(2006) Good 2nd in series as Walt tries to figure out why a woman in an assisted living facility was murdered and finds out that she was once married to Lucian, his predecesor as sheriff. Booklist*Starred Review* Johnson's second Walt Longmire novel more than fulfills the expectations created by the series debut, The Cold Dish (2004). Longmire, the aging, kindly, but tenacious sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County, once again finds himself involved in a murder case with tentacles reaching deep into the fabric of daily life in his insular mountain community. It all begins with the death of a Basque woman in an assisted-living home, but the circumstances of that death prompt Longmire and his bantering, foulmouthed deputy, Victoria Moretti, to begin nosing around in the victim's past. The trail leads in multiple directions, most of which converge on Longmire's mentor, former sheriff Lucian Connally. Like C. J. Box in his Joe Pickett series, Johnson uses the landscape of the Wyoming high country to evoke the sense of lives crushing in upon one another, as secrets refuse to stay buried, and old wounds continue to fester. Box's hero, Joe Pickett, is an outsider in his world, however, and Longmire is very much a comfortable part of Absaroka County, a kind of old shoe, in fact, like former sheriff Bill Gastner in Steven Hamill's series set in the very different landscape of Posadas County, New Mexico. Johnson combines a vivid sense of the dailiness of life--and the way human relationships take root in that dailiness--with a sure--handed touch for jolting both his characters and his readers out of their comfort zones and deep into harm's way. It's hard to ask for more in a literary mystery.

Good mystery of the week with Longmire and the crew from the Absoroka County Sherriff's department.

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George Guidall (Narrator)
loving the series and DOG. ( )

I loved this second book in the Walt Longmire series. Had great characters and witty dialogue. Today I laughed so hard in the tractor that I bumped it into gear. I highly recommend this series. ( )