• Hell Is Empty

  • A Walt Longmire Mystery
  • By: Craig Johnson
  • Narrated by: George Guidall
  • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (6,517 ratings)

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Hell Is Empty

By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: George Guidall
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Publisher's summary

Spur Award-winner Craig Johnson has garnered critical acclaim for his Walt Longmire mysteries. In this riveting seventh entry, Wyoming’s Absaroka County sheriff, Walt Longmire, is pushed beyond his limits.

When three hardened convicts escape FBI custody in a mountain blizzard, an armed psychopath leads them up Big Horn Mountain. As Longmire struggles to track their treacherous ascent, he’ll need all the help he can get from the tribal spirits of the towering summit.

Listen to all of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire mysteries.
©2011 Craig Johnson (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC

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Another good Craig story

I really enjoy reading the Longmire series. The narrator that reads the stories does a super job.

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Love the series

Found this story very dark had difficulty listening to it but because I love Walt I had to get to the end. George Goodall was awesome as always. I have the whole series......

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Entranced by the details

There is so much heart in his writing. I can see the animals, people and country inside and out.

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Best of The series

My favorite book in the series!
I only wish Lucian was in this one… but Virgil!!!

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Another good one

Loved it. And by seeing the reviews of other people about the other books, I wish they would bring the series back to tv with the original cast. All of the actors did justice to the characters.

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My favorite Longmire book!

I listen to all of the Longmire series once through completely and I'm starting over again because there just isn't anything like it available. I've read and listened to others that are in the similar Western law enforcement national Park sort of mindset but the quality of the writing just can't touch Craig Johnson's. this story is the best for me because it has everything in it and I did have to listen to it twice because on the second go around I heard things I never heard the first time. highly highly recommended.

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Snowy Peaks Sizzle

One of the best combos available. George Guidall is Walt Longmire.

He has the perfect voice and inflections for a weathered Wyoming Sheriff, who finds himself caught in a spring snowstorm, high in the Cloud Peak Wilderness area while trying to roundup a group of escaped prisoners. Craig Johnson's seventh book in the series tackles not only the unpredictable weather, but leads Walt on a journey mirroring that of Dante, substituting frigid temperatures for the warmer climates of hell. Walt's guide on his mystical trail is the grandfather of a murdered child, some thirteen years earlier, Virgil White Buffalo.

If you're looking for a cool read this summer, the frozen landscapes are sure to drop the thermostat a few degrees, but I'd call it the hottest listen of the summer.

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This is my favorite so far!

Would you listen to Hell Is Empty again? Why?

Yes. The particular Johnson storyline of Walt Longmire as sheriff has an underlying spiritual theme to it.

What did you like best about this story?

The underlying spiritual theme to the story.

What does George Guidall bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

He helps pictures to develop in my mind by the description he gives to the scenes as well as to the characters.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When Walt discovered that the older Indian who had been with him on the trail to find the escapee had been dead for a while.

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Straight to Hell...With Chaser.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

First of all, Mr. Johnson and his characterization, elegant prose and vivid metaphors of contemporary Wyoming/western is a reader's delight, similar to another artist of today's storytellers Mr. J.l. Burke and his passion for the Cajun Louisiana characters and culture. Safe to say that any reader would do well to grab themselves a cold one, a plate of crawfish and barbecue and turn up the volume on a Johnson or Burke audible player.

What did you like best about this story?

Walt Longmire is The Man peer ee ud!!!!! I think he comes closest to my all time overwestern figures and icons John Wayne. I found that Hell is Empty cemented Sheriff Longmire as a western super hero alongside The Duke. Qualifications for super hero: good guy devoted to eliminating evil, may bend but will not break, kicks all kinds of evil ass, yet maintains level of modesty, ladies swoon over super heroes, both good and bad, our super heroes all don uniforms, etc...PLEASE, feel free to add to this list.

What about George Guidall’s performance did you like?

George is Walt Longmire...further, he is one of my top narrators. Mr. Guidall can do it all.



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Dark and Eerie

Who was your favorite character and why?

Longmire continues to attract me. He is complex and spiritual without being pretentious.

Which character – as performed by George Guidall – was your favorite?

Longmire and Henry

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Plot kept me there but it needed to be digested with each twist and turn so I liked it better as something to savor over time.

Any additional comments?

Craig Johnson has done well with this character. I like that he develops Longmire in each book and want more of Henry.

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