Thanks to friend Nebraska Steve for introducing me to Walt Longmire and the gang years ago. I first got hooked on the TV series, and then backtracked and began reading the books. The series is good...but the books...offer so much more. Starting with the series planted a voice and a cadence in my ear, making reading the books that much more powerful.
Walt is a sheriff on the border of an Indian reservation, requiring him to balance his law with reservation law. The two often frequently due to deeply held beliefs and traditions.
This particular book brings even more meaning to the recent exhibit at the Rahr-West on missing, murdered, and exploded indigenous women. I am not quite finished yet so rather than bumbling though a summary. here's the info from the back of the book....
When Lolo Long's niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sherriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya "longshot" Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Morning Stars high school basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of missing Native women in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire involved might draw some public attention to the girl's plight, but with this maneuver she also inadvertently places the good sheriff in a one-on-one with the deadliest adversary he has ever faced in both this world and the next.
If you're intrigued and want to dig into a Longmire book, Cold Dish would be a good place to start.
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