Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire from Absaroka Couny inWyoming is looking forward to a trip east to visit his daughter Cady. He has not seen her in some time and he knows that she is getting serious about a young man, Devon Conliff. Cady, a lawyer in Philadelphia, lovingly called "the best legal mind in the East" by those who are close to here hasn’t been that forthcoming about her boy friend.
Longmire is travelling East by car with his friend Henry Standing Bear, who needs to go to Philadelphia because he is putting on a museum exhibit there and he hates to fly.
When they get to Philadelphia Cady is too busy to talk to her Dad on the phone and as Walt is settling into her apartment he gets a call that she has been seriously injured and left for dead. With the help of his Deputy Vic Moretti’s originally from Philly mother he gets to UPenn hospital to find Cady in a coma with severe brain damage. It appears that it was her erstwhile fiancé who has done the damage and subsequently fled the scene. Later Devon is found dead after he has been thrown of a bridge. Walt is naturally under suspicion but not for long.
During this series one becomes familiar with all these characters and one cares about them. The investigations done primarily by Philadelphia's finest among who are many members of Vic’s family. but Walt makes himself part of the investigation and is instrumental in rounding up the suspects.
Craig Johnson makes you long for the next in the series. He does not often have his characters leave Wyoming but this was a good trip. I am rereading these from the beginning for the second time.
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