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Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories
Viking. Oct. 2014. 192p. ISBN 9780525427919. $22; ebk. ISBN 9780698181823. F
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For a decade, Johnson (Any Other Name) has sent out a new Walt Longmire short story each Christmas Eve. Now those stories, along with a new one, "Petunia, Bandit Queen of the Bighorns," are collected into one volume. For fans of Johnson's Absaroka County sheriff, all the familiar characters fill these stories—Walt, Vic, Henry, Cady, and of course the wild, open spaces of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. Several pieces mention Martha, Walt's wife, who has died, and readers can sense his loss and loneliness. "Slick-Tongued Devil" tells of a Bible salesman trying to cash in on Walt's grief. Always outsmarting the bad guys, Walt's razor-sharp intellect and reasoning win out in every story.
VERDICT Fans of the books and the A&E series will treasure this volume, which includes an introduction by Lou Diamond Phillips (who plays Henry Standing Bear in Longmire), as the stories supplement Johnson's 11 mystery novels; readers can never get enough of the characters and hope that another new story will fill their Christmas stockings. [See Prepub Alert, 4/21/14.]
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