Craig Johnson's "Next to Last Stand": A Longmire Mystery Novel

Ferd: Really like the plot and historical background of this one. A few of the ancillary characters are a little thin but overall more satisfying than the previous couple of books. I was beginning to think Longmire had jumped the shark but this one is back on firmer ground.

United States on Feb 11, 2024

P. Keene: Craig Johnson’s Longmire series just can not be beat. The story is compelling, the humor is laugh out loud at times, and the characters are believable. I’m always sorry to see the end, because I want to remain in Absaroka County! Highly, highly recommend this book and the entire series.

United States on Feb 08, 2024

Frank Kelso: I enjoyed the humor throughout the book. It was a little tonge-in-cheek buy it made for easy reading. It never explained why he was so reluctant to call his daughter and granddaughter?

United States on Jan 05, 2024

Amazon Customer: Walt goes on about his business as he winds around the latest test of his skills. You won't be disappointed with the authors offerings. I give the book another five stars. Enjoy.

Canada on Apr 08, 2022

Marquinius: I love stories like this, fast packed action, good dialogues and heaps of historical facts. I might even look up on some of it. Well done!

Netherlands on Aug 07, 2021

Jane_H77: A change of pace from many of the Longmire novels though still plenty of action. Johnson imparts the significance of ‘Custers last stand’ as an artwork and a historical marker with of course some fictional embellishment. Overall a great read!

Australia on Feb 19, 2021

Robert James Vandevoort (Show Low, Arizona)Robert James Vandevoort (Show Low, Arizona): Sheriff Walt Longmire receives a telephone call from the manager of the Veterans’ Home of Wyoming, located on the grounds of the historical Fort McKinney. A resident has died, and while the cause of death has not been determined, there is a reason for the sheriff to become involved. The manager found in the dead veterans’ room, a shoe box. It is not often that one finds a shoe box with $1 million in $100 bills.

Sheriff Longmire and his deputy, the attractive Vic Moretti, a former Philadelphia PD homicide detective, who also is his lover, head out to the Veterans’ home. Walt knew Charley Lee, the dead veteran. What he did not know, was that Charley was a talented individual in art history, as the number of books, notes, and paintings that were in his room indicated. Walt found a small artist proof in the room. As he investigates, the artist proof seems to have been connected to the famous painting “Custer’s Last Fight”, which was believed to have been destroyed in a fire at Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? If the painting did not get destroyed, the value would be around $24 million. If it was known that the painting exists, and with that value, it surely...

United States on Nov 07, 2020

M. MacInnes: Walt Longmire is a man to aspire to. He has his flaws, but is relentless in the pursuit of justice. A man true to his code, a great friend an a feared enemy. With the support of his close friend and his stalwart deputy, Walt succeeds where many would give up of fail.

I read this book because Walt is its main character, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading Craig Johnson's story. I always learn from Mr. Johnson's stories set in Wyoming, about its people and its history. This book taught me much about how the legend of Custer's last stand grew, and how controversial a legend can be.

Canada on Oct 27, 2020

George P. Wood: To be honest, I didn’t know what to expect from Next to Last Stand, Craig Johnson’s sixteenth novel featuring Walt Longmire, sheriff of (fictional) Absaroka County, Wyoming. The two previous novels—Depth of Winter and Land of Wolves—garnered polar opposite reactions from me: I hated the former and loved the latter. So, would I love or hate the newest installment in the Longmire series?

The book starts with the death of Charley Lee Stillwater, an African American veteran of World War II and the Korean War, who lived at the Veterans Home of Wyoming, which Longmire and his pals call by its old name, the Home for Soldiers and Sailors.

When the home’s administrator begins to process the items in Stillwater’s room, she discovers a Florsheim shoe box with $1 million in cash, an artist’s study for an unknown larger painting, and dozens of carefully annotated books about George Armstrong Custer, his “last stand” at Little Bighorn, and Cassilly Adams’ famous painting of the same. The original painting was destroyed in a fire in 1946, but it is well known due to the million or so copies printed and distributed to bars around the world by...

United States on Sep 28, 2020

plp: Dear Mr Johnson
Thank you so much for the immeasurable pleasure reading your Longmire books has given me, and I think quite soon my husband also now that he is retired and has time to read.
The characters you created have such appeal I wish I could meet them, it would be a wonderful thing in today's world to find that they existed somewhere and that those qualities they have are not entirely lost to cynicism, selfishness and hedonism.
Please write many more and I hope continue to enjoy doing so as you certainly deserve.
Kind regards

United Kingdom on Sep 26, 2020