Another Man's Moccasins

A Walt Longmire Mystery

By: Craig Johnson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's Summary

Craig Johnson's mystery stories have earned him an esteemed position in the pantheon of contemporary crime novelists. In this fourth installment, Longmire is called to investigate a dead Vietnamese girl found along the Wyoming highway.

Listen to all of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire mysteries.

©2008 Craig Johnson (P)2008 Recorded Books,LLC

Critic Reviews

"Full of crackling dialogue, this absorbing tale demonstrates that Longmire is still the sheriff in town." ( Publishers Weekly)

The best writer and the best reader get together

All of Craig Johnson's books can stand alone, but they really are best listened to in sequence, all of a piece, as three volumes of one story. While I am annoyed that this book took so long to show up in audible.com, I couldn't stop listening to it. The mystery is inconsequential to me; I just like hanging out with Sheriff Walt and Henry Standing Bear. I enjoy the mystery, but I'd keep right on listening if they started a cooking show or discussed particle physics. George Guidall is that good with his reading and acting skills. He must do all of them, as no one else could voice these characters properly. I don't want to wait another year for the next installment of life on the plains and the usual at the Busy Bee. These aren't books, they're a life. May Longmire have a long and multi-volume career. And Dog needs more lines in the next one. He got shunted aside this time. He deserves better than hanging out with Ruby all the time.

Can't get enough

This series just has me hooked on the characters, the plot and the locations and history. George Guidal has never been in better form and I can not imagine anyone doing justice to these characters as well as he does. I hope Mr. Johnson never allows anyone else to read his novels.
If you haven't listened to any of his books yet, go back and start with " A Cold Dish" and work your way forward. IF you like a good mystery with excellent writing you can't find better.

Two for the Price of One!

This is the fourth Walt Longmire I've read. I continue to be very fond of this series and will definitely keep reading. This particular book offers the chance to see Walt solve a mystery at home in present-day, and looks back at his time in Vietnam, where he solves an old mystery too. It's nice to learn yet another admirable part of Walt's character -- a true patriot.

However, the jumping back and forth between past and present wasn't entirely smooth, and the bit about the crazy huge Native American Virgil went a little overboard, so while good, Johnson can do better.

The narrator is excellent.

Not my favorite

I've listened to the Longmire books in order thus far -- they've been 5 star favorites -- but 'Another Man's Moccasins' falls short of the first three. George Guidall gives a fine reading, but the story -- with its flashbacks to Vietnam -- is muddled and, at times, aggravating. The Vietnam backstory simply gets in the way.

Good backstory for the characters, Walt and Bear

This is a good addition to the series, providing some good history for several of the characters, most notably Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear. The appearance of a dead Vietnamese woman in the county sparks flashbacks for the sheriff, and pieces of the story in Vietnam in the late 60s are interwoven with the current story unfolding in Absaroka County in the late 2000s. It does make me readjust my expected age of Longmire, though - I hadn't quite thought of him in his 60s, but the references do make him at least 60 in this book. Not that it matters, but it doesn't quite match the picture in my mind (where I pictured him in his mid to late 50s). I enjoyed the mix of past and present, and the addition of some historical perspective on the characters.

Not one of my favorites

I listen to the Longmire books when I want to hear a story with a little mystery thrown in. All the characters were still interesting and I enjoyed the story when they were in the present but they kept going into the past, which I didn't understand half of, so that kind of ruined it for me.

I had trouble with the narrator when I first started listening to Longmire, but he's grown on me and I can't imagine anyone else reading these books.

Not my favorite

Not as good a story to me, but still good. Lots of production issues, half the chapters ended with no pause into the next: I stared at the gun-pointed-at-my- face-chapter-5. Some places it was hard to tell when the flashback ended and we were back in Durant. Also, I hate that Mr G makes all females, especially Vic and sometimes Katie, sound like such witches! I don't like Vic, either because of this, or because she is so vulgar, or both. Ready for the next book.

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING--

--if you haven't listened to George Guidall read Craig Johnson's detective series. It's just perfect: great stories, memorable wonderful characters (you look forward to the next book like you look forward to going home)--read by a guy who gets the understated emotions and humor of all the characters.. Walt Longmire is a Sheriff-of-a-Certain-Age in a Western state, whose best pal is a native American he knows from serving in Viet Nam. Plots are believable and intersect small-town Western life with life on the reservation. Old cowboys (and young ones) and older Indians (and younger ones) cross paths in unexpected ways. What a treat. And the women, including Walt's daughter, are smart & complicated & surprising in real-life ways. I'm a fan of Hammett & Chandler & Adrian McKinty & Tana French & Elizabeth George--Craig Johnson is right up there with the best.Another Man's Moccasins focuses more on the Viet Nam life of the main character.At first I wasn't into it, but Johnson writes so well, he drew me in. He mixes the perfect martini--delicious plot & characters, with just a waft of nature & a pinch of spirituality. One is not enough--five is not enough.

Mostly excellent

Love the narrator and story. However, the character Vic is too much for me. I don’t believe she’s necessary to the story. Her potty mouth is over the top and unnecessary and the gratuitous sex talk is off putting. I hope she mellows out in the next series of books. Not sure if I can keep listening, otherwise.

Just OK book

I have listened to several of the books by author and this is my least favorite so for. I like the character, Walt Longmire, but did not like the back and forth between present and past. It seemed a little disjointed.