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Craig Johnson

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Craig Johnson an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. . He lives in Ucross, near Sheridan, Wyoming, population 25.

Johnson has written twelve novels featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire: The Cold Dish, Death Without Company, Kindness Goes Unpunished, Another Man's Moccasins, Junkyard Dogs, The Dark Horse (which received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal, and was named one of Publisher's Weekly's best books of the year in 2009), Hell Is Empty, As The Crow Flies and A Serpent's Tooth. The Cold Dish and The Dark Horse were both Dilys Award finalists, and Death Without Company was named the Wyoming Historical Association's Book of the Year. Another Man's Moccasins received the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best novel of 2008 as well as the Mountains and Plains award for fiction book of the year.

Former police officer; has also worked as an educator, cowboy, and longshoreman.

AWARDS: Tony Hillerman Award for "Old Indian Trick"; fiction book of the year, Wyoming Historical Society, for Death Without Company, Wyoming Council for the Arts Award.

Junkyard Dogs

2024
Read Craig Johnson's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. A missing thumb an

A Serpent's Tooth

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The inspiration for A&E's Longmire finds himself in the crosshairs in the ninth book of th

Kindness Goes Unpunished

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Walt Longmire has been sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County for almost a quarter of a cent

Another Man's Moccasins

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Walt Longmire unravels a mystery that connects two murders across forty yearsWhen the body

The Dark Horse

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Wade Barsad, a man with a dubious past and a gift for making enemies, burned his wife Mary

The Cold Dish

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Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County, knows he's got trouble when Cody Prit