Junkyard Dogs

A Walt Longmire Mystery

By: Craig Johnson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Craig Johnson’s rough-and-tumble hero Walt Longmire is quickly becoming a fan-favorite and a critical success.

Here Walt has his hands full as greedy land developers employ shady, violent methods to reverse their fortunes in recession-racked Wyoming, where the owners of a multi-million dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent junk-yard. When a severed thumb is discovered in the yard, conflicts erupt, and Walt Longmire, his trusty companion Dog, life-long friend Henry Standing Bear, and deputies Santiago Saizarbitoria and Victoria Moretti find themselves in a small town that feels more and more like a high plains pressure cooker.

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Critic reviews

“It’s the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to [these] lean and leathery mysteries.” ( New York Times Book Review)

awesome!!!!

as always, the longmire series, held my attention and seemed to take little to know time at all to read.

Enjoyable listen

Good storyline and nicely paced. The series certainly starts to grow on you. Well worth a listen.

Now with more on the deputies

Book 6 in the series returns us to Wyoming in winter. I've been listening to the series in order on talking books, and I can't imagine a better reader than George Guidall. His voice perfectly conveys the humor and frustrations of a good man who takes his elected responsibilities seriously but bears the brunt of injuries sustained by his overworked, underrfunded, and undermanned department. No direct interaction with Cady in this book but his relationships with his deputies are foremost and that's intriguing. I would have given it 5 stars but felt too much of the book dwelled on how hard it is to move fast in the snow.

Walt and Dog win!

This series is just plain excellent.
This entry shows us greed, drug business, family politics and life in a small town. One does not have to leave Podunk to find drama. I live in a small town and know that for sure, but so does our author.

The writing is excellent. Plot fast paced. Characters finely drawn. There is something kindly and yet real about Craig Johnson's world in Wyoming.
I'm not a reader of Westerns, at all, never have been. His books are about life, that just happens to be in a small town, in the West, and includes a mystery.

Don't miss this series. I consider it one of the best out there. Also see it on A and E, although the books are not repeated so don't let that stop you from reading.

Loved Dog's (his dog is named Dog) role in this one, by the way. When you love animals it shows in your writing and you can't leave them out.
Another reviewer mentioned Vic's potty mouth. It's not gratuitous and fits her character, and works for the books.

Each character is individual, with their own clear voice, not one dimensional and homogenous as in some author's works.

Americana redux

Craig Johnson's books, read by George Guidall, have something of the wise old dad about them. No matter that Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County, is not so old he doesn't lust after his deputy, the apple-assed Vic Moretti. That just makes him more of a man. And man he is. Bearing all manner of physical insult, he comes out on top once again, chasing his quarry through an 18" snowstorm high in the hills surrounding Red Lodge, Montana.

The ridiculous nature of the events that set off a chain of murders can only be based in truth because no novelist would create such stories for fear his tribe of readers would leave him for dead. In interviews Johnson tells us that he gets the basis for his outrageous stories from his friends in the police, so the one about the man cleaning the chimney in the middle of the winter with a rag soaked in kerosene, and tied with a rope to the bumper of a Durango, has got to be true. Hard as it is to believe. But it is the home-smoked flavor of these great western stories that make this series so...home grown.

This is a series I allow myself to savor like a fine cigar. I pace myself, withholding the pleasure of beginning a new story until I feel I have earned a special treat. They are soothing to the soul, funny to the bone, candy for the brain, and oh-so-reassuring for those among us who fear wisdom eludes our public servants.

Love this series!

absolutely love the Walt Longmire series! once again both Craig Johnson and George Guidell have out done themselves. can't wait to read the next book in the series!

Amazing book

amazing books I just love this series I actually for the first time really think I prefer the books over the TV series or just mine blows me they're very addicting

What a wonderful book

Dammm funny dogg it a life saver, couldnt put it down love the longmire series

Love Longmire!

Craig Johnson’s descriptions are so unexpected they make me laugh. Very witty and funny. I’ll be reading all of the Longmire books. ❤️

Loved it.

A great Series. I still look forward to the stories in each new book. It is nice to have a future with these characters.