Craig Johnson

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2005
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Walt Longmire Mystery

0.5 - Wait for Signs (Oct-2014)
1 - The Cold Dish (Jan-2005)
2 - Death Without Company (Mar-2006)
3 - Kindness Goes Unpunished (Mar-2007)
4 - Another Man's Moccassins (Mar-2008)
5 - The Dark Horse (Jun-2009)
6 - Junkyard Dogs (Jun-2010)
7 - Hell Is Empty (Jun-2011)
7.5 - Divorce Horse (Apr-2012)
8 - As the Crow Flies (May-2012)
8.5 - Christmas in Absaroka County (Dec-2012)
8.75 - Messenger (Apr-2013)
9 - A Serpent's Tooth (Jun-2013)
10 - The Spirit of Steamboat (Oct-2013)
11 - Any Other Name (May-2014)
12 - Dry Bones (May-2015)
12.5 - The Highwayman (May-2016)
13 - An Obvious Fact (Sep-2016)
14 - The Western Star (Sep-2017)
15 - Depth of Winter (Sep-2018)
16 - Land of Wolves (Sep-2019)
17 - Next to Last Stand (Sep-2020)
18 - Daughter of the Morning Star (Sep-2021)
19 - Hell and Back (Sep-2022)
20 - The Longmire Defense (Sep-2023)
21 - First Frost (May-2024)
22 - Tooth and Claw (Nov-2024)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • The Cold Dish

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 1

    Introducing Wyoming’s Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author, the first in the Longmire mystery series Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love this outstanding first novel, ...

  • Death Without Company

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 2

    When Mari Baroja is found poisoned at the Durant Home for Assisted Liv ing, Sheriff Longmire is drawn into an investigation that reaches back fifty years into the mysterious woman's past. Her connections to Wyoming's Basque community, the lucrative c...

  • Kindness Goes Unpunished

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 3

    Walt Longmire returns for his third adventure but this time he is in the City of Brotherly Love, where no act of kindness goes unpunished Walt has been the sheriff in Wyoming's Absaroka County for twenty-four years, where his wit and charm have h...

  • Another Man's Moccassins

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 4

    A murder victim might connect to Walt’s past in the fourth Longmire novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Land of Wolves

    When the body of a young Vietnamese woman is discovered alongside the interstate in Wyoming's Absaroka Coun...

  • The Dark Horse

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 5

    WYOMING'S TOUGHEST LAWMAN UNPINS HIS STAR IN A TOWN WITHOUT PITY TO SAVE A WOMAN WITHOUT HOPE Wade Barsad, a man with a dubious past and a gift for making enemies, burned his wife Mary's horses in their barn; in retribution, she shot him in the head...

  • Junkyard Dogs

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 6

    When the owners of a multimillion-dollar development of ranchettes in Durant, Wyoming, want to get rid of the adjacent junkyard, they come up against the notorious Stewart clan, making the town feel like a high plains pressure cooker. Absaroka County...

  • Hell Is Empty

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 7

    Wyoming's favorite sheriff braves a frozen inferno as he races to capture an escaped murderer. Well-read and world-weary, Sheriff Walt Longmire has been maintaing order in Wyoming's Absaroka County for more than thirty years, but in this riveting ...

  • Divorce Horse

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 7.5

    Sheriff Walt Longmire and his soon-to-be married daughter, Cady, hit the race track in an original story from New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson Walt Longmire, the longtime sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, has little time to relax...

  • As the Crow Flies

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 8

    The Wyoming lawman returns after staking his claim on the New York Times bestseller list Embarking on his eighth adventure, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire has a more important matter on his mind than cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is ge...



  • Christmas in Absaroka County

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 8.5

    It’s holiday season in Absaroka County and Sheriff Walt Longmire gets personal in this delightful collection of four short stories from New York Times-bestselling author Craig Johnson. Full of Longmire’s dry wit and good heart, "Christmas in ...

  • Messenger

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 8.75

    Sheriff Walt Longmire, his long-time friend Henry Standing Bear, and his undersheriff Victoria Moretti are returning from a fishing trip in the Bighorn Mountains when Walt receives a distress call from Crazy Woman Canyon. Forest service ranger Chuck ...

  • A Serpent's Tooth

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 9

    It's homecoming for the Durant Dogies when Cord Lynear, a Mormon "lost boy" forced off his compound for rebellious behavior, shows up in Absaroka County. Without much guidance, divine or otherwise, Sheriff Walt Longmire, Victoria Moretti, and Henry S...

  • The Spirit of Steamboat

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 10

    A holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration for A&E’s hit show Longmire "It’s a question of what you have to do, what you have to live with if you don’t.” Sheriff Walt L...

  • Any Other Name

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 11

    Sheriff Walt Longmire is sinking into a high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Connally, asks him to take on a mercy case outside his jurisdiction. Detective Gerald Holman of neighboring Campbell County is dead, and Lucian wants t...

  • Wait for Signs

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 0.5

    A New York Times-bestselling collection of Longmire adventures Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning “Old Indian Trick.” This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on...

  • Dry Bones

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 12

    When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sherriff Walt Longmire’s jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum -- until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose pro...

  • The Highwayman

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 12.5

    Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear embark on their latest adventure in this novella set in the world of Craig Johnson’s New York Times bestselling Longmire series -- the basis for the hit drama Longmire, now on Netflix Craig Johnson's...

  • An Obvious Fact

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 13

    In the 12th novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix orginal series Longmire, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident ...

  • The Western Star

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 14

    The thirteenth novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix series Longmire Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforce...



  • Depth of Winter

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 15

    Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. In Craig Johnson's latest mystery, Depth of Winter, an international hit man and the head of one of the most vicious drug cartels in Mexico has kidnapped Walt's beloved daughter, Cady, to auction her off to...

  • Land of Wolves

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 16

    Recovering from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, Sheriff Walt Longmire returns to Absaroka County, Wyoming, to lick his wounds and try once again to maintain justice in a place with grudges that go back generations. When a shepherd is found dead,...

  • Next to Last Stand

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 17

    One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946...

  • Daughter of the Morning Star

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 18

    When Lolo Long's niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya "Longshot" Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady ...

  • Attack of the iFones And Other Vertically Challenged Stories

    A collection of both humorous and dramatic short stories including Attack of the iFones, The Drive from Copperhill, Get Rid of S, Online Gaming Addiction, Don't Turn Out the Light, Liquor Boy, Old Friends, and The Sequestered Nook. Some of these stor...

  • Hell and Back

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 19

    A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? W...

  • The Longmire Defense

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 20

    Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West. ...

  • First Frost

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 21

    The past and future collide in this gripping new addition to the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist ...

  • Tooth and Claw

    A Walt Longmire Mystery - 22

    In the tradition of Wait for Signs and The Highwayman, Craig Johnson is back with a short novel set in the Alaska tundra where a young Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear face off with powerful enemies who will do anything to get what they want.Too...

  • Return to Sender

    Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost, and encounters one of his most baffling cases.The Sheriff of Absaroka confronts a cabal of devious outlaws who are hell bent on getting what they want, even though they have to bend and break ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Craig Johnson has published 29 books.

The next book by Craig Johnson, Return to Sender, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish, was published in January 2005.

Yes. Craig Johnson has 1 series.
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