Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 6/12/2020 + 1223 more book reviews

This was another excellent entry in the Longmire series by Johnson. I have been reading this series off and on ever since seeing the TV series on A&E and Netflix. I was sorry to see the series finally end on TV but the books to me are even better. I have been reading these in no particular order (I probably should have started at the beginning) but have still enjoyed them all. In this one, Walt is spending a very cold winter in Durant, Wyoming, when he is called to find a septuagenarian tied to the back of 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado. Turns out he was on the roof of his house and anchored to the car when it was accidentally driven off by his granddaughter-in-law. He is also the owner of a notorious junkyard at the edge of town that a multi-million-dollar developer is trying to get rid of. The junkyard is also guarded by a couple of wolf dogs that play a key role in this rather different story in the Longmire saga. When the grandfather ends up dead of less than natural causes, Longmire and his deputies get involved which leads to more corpses and a large-scale marijuana operation. But who is financing this and why are people getting killed? In the mean time, Walt's body is getting more and more decrepit--his eyesight is failing and some wolf bites add to his miseries.

This, as usual, was a very engaging and entertaining entry in the series. It was more humorous than some of the previous books I have read and it kept the reader guessing until the end. I really enjoyed it and will be looking forward to reading the books I have missed.

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