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Craig Johnson


(Craig Allen Johnson)
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Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama. The Cold Dish won Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/Bibliobs. Death Without Company, the Wyoming Historical Associations Book of the Year, won Frances Le Prix 813, and Another Mans Moccasins was the Western Writers of Americas Spur Award Winner and the Mountains & Plains Book of the Year. The Dark Horse, the fifth in the series, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Junkyard Dogs won The Watson Award for a mystery novel with the best sidekick. Hell Is Empty, selected by Library Journal as the Best Mystery of the Year, was a New York Times best seller, as was As the Crow Flies, which won the Rocky for the best crime novel typifying the western United States. A Serpents Tooth opened as a New York Times bestseller as did Any Other Name and Wait for Signs, Johnson's collection of short stories. Spirit of Steamboat was selected by the State Library as the inaugural One Book Wyoming and included visits to sixty-three libraries. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five.
 

Genres: Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Walt Longmire Mysteries
   1. The Cold Dish (2004)
   2. Death Without Company (2006)
   3. Kindness Goes Unpunished (2007)
   4. Another Man's Moccasins (2008)
   5. The Dark Horse (2009)
   6. Junkyard Dogs (2010)
   7. Hell Is Empty (2011)
   7.5. Divorce Horse (2012)
   8. As the Crow Flies (2012)
   8.5. Christmas in Absaroka County (2012)
   8.6. Messenger (2013)
   9. A Serpent's Tooth (2013)
   9.5. The Spirit of Steamboat (2013)
   10. Any Other Name (2014)
   10.5. Wait for Signs (2014)
   11. Dry Bones (2015)
   11.5. The Highwayman (2016)
   12. An Obvious Fact (2016)
   13. The Western Star (2017)
   14. Depth of Winter (2018)
   15. Land of Wolves (2019)
   16. Next to Last Stand (2020)
   17. Daughter of the Morning Star (2021)
   18. Hell and Back (2022)
   19. The Longmire Defense (2023)
   20. First Frost (2024)
   Tooth and Claw (2024)
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Craig Johnson recommends
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Shades of Mercy (2024)
(Porter Beck, book 2)
Bruce Borgos
"A crisp jolt of cask-strength, 100-proof writing."
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Northwoods (2024)
Amy Pease
"Get lost in Amy Pease's words, get lost in the gripping personal debut of a complex new series - get lost in NORTHWOODS."
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The Moonshine Messiah (2023)
Russell W Johnson
"Like the illegitimate child of Justified and Sons of Anarchy, The Moonshine Messiah leaps off the page with a rarified air of gritty, hillbilly realism. The legitimate part is the voice author Russell Johnson uses to tell this no-holds-barred, Appalachian assault of avarice and antagonism."

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Anthologies containing stories by Craig Johnson
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This Time For Sure (2021)
Bouchercon 2021 Anthology
(Bouchercon Anthology)
edited by
Hank Phillippi Ryan
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (2017)
(Best American Mystery Stories)
edited by
Otto Penzler and John Sandford

Awards
Dilys Awards Best Book nominee (2006) : The Cold Dish
Dilys Awards Best Book nominee (2010) : The Dark Horse
Barry Awards Best Novel nominee (2019) : Depth of Winter


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